Domain bridging in melts of starblock copolymers
This is an attempt at recreating my 2017 CAP Congress talk.
It is similar to my 2017 APS March Meeting talk.
CAP Talk URL: https://services.cap.ca/drupal/sites/...
APS Talk URL: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR1...
Paper URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol....
Other links:
Matsen and Thompson, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 7139 (1999)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.480006
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:42 Phase Behaviour
1:44 Thermoplastic Elastomers
3:08 Starblock Copolymers
3:36 Self-Consistent Field Theory
4:59 Calculating Bridging Statistics
7:42 Joint Distributions
8:31 Marginal Distributions (Lamellar)
9:05 The Cylinder Phase
10:30 The Spherical Phase (BCC)
11:40 Bridging Fractions
12:30 Conclusion