Issue 7, 2006

Morphology of multi-component polymer systems: single chain in mean field simulation studies

Abstract

Recent work exploring phase separation and self-assembly in multicomponent polymer fluids using a particle-based self-consistent field simulation method is reviewed. The computational method is placed in the context of classical molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations as well as field-theoretic approaches. Its potential is illustrated by applications ranging from spinodal decomposition in symmetric polymer blends and the ordering of diblock copolymers in the bulk to more complex phenomena such as solvent evaporation from thin polymer films and the fabrication of three-dimensional bicontinuous diblock copolymer morphologies via reconstruction on patterned substrates.

Graphical abstract: Morphology of multi-component polymer systems: single chain in mean field simulation studies

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
21 Feb 2006
Accepted
04 Apr 2006
First published
26 Apr 2006

Soft Matter, 2006,2, 573-583

Morphology of multi-component polymer systems: single chain in mean field simulation studies

K. Ch. Daoulas, M. Müller, J. J. de Pablo, P. F. Nealey and G. D. Smith, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 573 DOI: 10.1039/B602610A

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