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Ordering and Reverse Ordering Mechanisms of Triblock Copolymers in the Presence of Solvent

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dc.contributor.authorThompson, Russell B.
dc.contributor.authorRasmussen, Kim
dc.contributor.authorManiadis, Panagiotis
dc.contributor.authorKober, Edward M.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-08T19:15:31Z
dc.date.available2016-03-08T19:15:31Z
dc.date.issued2009-02-27
dc.descriptionInt. J. Mol. Sci. 2009, 10(3), 805-816; doi:10.3390/ijms10030805 Published by MDPI © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en
dc.description.abstractSelf-consistent field theory is used to study the self-assembly of a triblock copolymer melt. Two different external factors (temperature and solvent) are shown to affect the self-assembly. Either one or two-step self-assembly can be found as a function of temperature in the case of a neat triblock melt, or as a function of increasing solvent content (for non-selective solvents) in the case of a triblock-solvent mixture. For selective solvents, it is shown that increasing the solvent content leads to more complicated self-assembly mechanisms, including a reversed transition where order is found to increase instead of decreasing as expected, and re-entrant behavior where order is found to increase at first, and then decrease to a previous state of disorder.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory || Contract No. DE-AC5206NA25396 NSERC of Canadaen
dc.identifier.issn1422-0067
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms10030805
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/10309
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences;10en
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectTriblock copolymersen
dc.subjectself-assemblyen
dc.subjectself-consistent field theoryen
dc.titleOrdering and Reverse Ordering Mechanisms of Triblock Copolymers in the Presence of Solventen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationThompson Russell B., Rasmussen Kim, Maniadis Panagiotis, Kober Edward M., (2009). "Ordering and Reverse Ordering Mechanisms of Triblock Copolymers in the Presence of Solvent", International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 10, 805-816. doi:10.3390/ijms10030805.en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Scienceen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Physics and Astronomyen
uws.peerReviewStatusRevieweden
uws.scholarLevelFacultyen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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