Interplay between microscopic and macroscopic phase separations in ternary polymer melts: Insight from mesoscale modelling

Fluid Phase Equilibria

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 38-48

  Posel, Zbyšek ^a   Lísal, Martin ^a,b   Brennan, John K ^c  

^a J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diblock copolymers; Dissipative particle dynamics; Dynamic mean field density functional theory; Homopolymers; Macrophase separation; Microphase separation; Phase diagram

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; BICONTINUOUS; BICONTINUOUS MICROEMULSION; COARSE GRAINING; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; HOMOPOLYMER; HOMOPOLYMERS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MACROPHASE SEPARATION; MACROSCOPIC PHASE SEPARATION; MEAN-FIELD; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODELLING; NARROW CHANNEL; ORDER PARAMETER; ORDER-DISORDER; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; REAL SYSTEMS; TOPDOWN; TWO-PHASE REGION; VISUAL INSPECTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DYNAMICS; ETHYLENE; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MICROCHANNELS; MICROEMULSIONS; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS; SILICONES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 67649458013     PISSN: 03783812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fluid.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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