ISOTROPIC LIFSHITZ BEHAVIOR IN BLOCK COPOLYMER-HOMOPOLYMER BLENDS

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BATES, FS [1 ]
MAURER, W [1 ]
LODGE, TP [1 ]
SCHULZ, MF [1 ]
MATSEN, MW [1 ]
ALMDAL, K [1 ]
MORTENSEN, K [1 ]
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[1] RISO NATL LAB,DK-4000 ROSKILDE,DENMARK
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4429
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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A series of mixtures composed of a symmetric A-B diblock copolymer and a symmetric blend of A and B homopolymers was investigated by small-angle neutron scattering. Mean-field theory predicts that a line of lamellar-disorder transitions with wave-vector instability q* > 0 will meet a line of critical points with q* = 0 in the three-component mixture at an isotropic Lifshitz point. Mean-field Lifshitz behavior (gamma = 1 and nu = 1/4) was observed in the disordered state at the anticipated composition to within 1 K of the phase transition.
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页码:4429 / 4432
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