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Interfacial Properties of Isotropic Semi-Flexible Polymer Blends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Andrea J. Liu  and
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Andrea J. Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Abstract

We analyze interfacial behavior in binary blends of polymers with different flexibilities. Our starting point is a free energy functional calculated from a microscopic model of wormlike chains. We show how this functional can be used to calculate interfacial properties within the Cahn-Hilliard approach. Here we present preliminary results applicable to chains that are globally coil-like. At the interface between two isotropic phases, each rich in a different polymer, we find that the polymers tend to be extended parallel to the interface. Thus their shape is oblate rather than spherical at the interface.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 290: Symposium N – Dynamics in Small Confining Systems , 1992 , 37
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1993

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