Fluctuation effects in A + B + AB ternary polymer blends
This is an attempt at recreating my 2018 APS March Meeting talk.
Update: The work I mentioned at the end (update to this work) is finally out!: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.1...
Talk URL: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR1...
Paper URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10...
Other links:
Bates et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 849 (1997)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.7...
Düchs and Schmid, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 2798 (2004)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1768152
0:00 Introduction
0:21 Symmetric Ternary Blends
1:43 Mean Field Phase Behavior
2:33 Experimental Phase Behavior
2:46 Phase Behavior from Simulations
3:50 From Particles to Fields
5:03 Monte Carlo Field-Theoretic Simulations
5:56 Finite Size Scaling
6:44 Macrophase Segregation Transition
7:14 Three-Phase Coexistence
8:10 Tenary Blend Phase Behavior