Dependence of the disorder-lamellar stability boundary of a melt of asymmetric wormlike AB diblock copolymers on the chain rigidity

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jiang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Wu Yang ^a   Chen, Jeff Z Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHAIN RIGIDITY; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; DISORDER-ORDER TRANSITIONS; FLORY-HUGGINS PARAMETER; GAUSSIAN CHAINS; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; SELF-CONSISTENT MEAN-FIELD; SHORTER CHAINS; SPLIT-STEP; STABILITY BOUNDARIES; WORMLIKE CHAIN;

ALGORITHMS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; RIGIDITY;

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

EID: 80054901816     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.041803     Document Type: Article

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