Thompson, Russell B.Jebb, T.Wen, Y.2016-03-082016-03-082012-08-14http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2012/SM/c2sm26352a#!divAbstracthttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/10308DOI: 10.1039/C2SM26352A (Paper) Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 9877-9885 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012A minimalist self-consistent field theory for small amphiphilic molecules is presented. The equations for this model are less involved than those for block copolymers and are easily implemented computationally. A new convergence technique based on a variant of Anderson mixing is also presented which allows the equations to be solved more rapidly than block copolymer self-consistent field theory. The computational speed up and simplicity of equations result from a lack of configurational degrees of freedom in the amphiphilic molecular model. The omission of polymeric flexibility leads to qualitatively different predictions compared to known diblock copolymer behaviour.enself-consistent field theoryamphiphilic moleculesblock copolymersArticle