Limitations of the dilution approximation for concentrated block copolymer/solvent mixtures

JR Naughton, MW Matsen - Macromolecules, 2002 - ACS Publications
Experimental control of block copolymer segregation is ideally achieved by varying
temperature, but in practice, the range of segregation is very restricted. A far greater range …

Combinatorial screening of complex block copolymer assembly with self-consistent field theory

F Drolet, GH Fredrickson - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
We describe a numerical implementation of self-consistent mean field theory for block
copolymers that requires no assumption of the mesophase symmetry. The method is …

Triblock copolymer theory: Free energy, disordered phase and weak segregation

X Ren, J Wei - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2003 - Elsevier
We derive an order parameter model for triblock copolymers. After the statistical description
of interacting polymer chains is presented, the self-consistent field theory is used as a …

Block copolymers in electric fields: A comparison of single-mode and self-consistent-field approximations

Y Tsori, D Andelman, CY Lin, M Schick - Macromolecules, 2006 - ACS Publications
We compare two theoretical approaches to diblock copolymer melts in an external electric
field. The first is a relatively simple analytic expansion in the copolymer composition and …

Self‐consistent field theory of block copolymers and block copolymer blends

MD Whitmore, JD Vavasour - Acta polymerica, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the numerical, self‐consistent field theory of block copolymers and
blends in which they are a major component, and the relationship of this approach to …

Thin films of block copolymer

MW Matsen - The Journal of chemical physics, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
We develop a numerical method for examining complex morphologies in thin films of block
copolymer using self-consistent field theory. Applying the method to confined films of …

Fluctuation-corrected phase diagrams for diblock copolymer melts

MW Matsen, TM Beardsley, JD Willis - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
New developments in field-theoretic simulations (FTSs) are used to evaluate fluctuation
corrections to the self-consistent field theory of diblock copolymer melts. Conventional …

Bicontinuous phases in diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends: simulation and self-consistent field theory

FJ Martínez-Veracoechea, FA Escobedo - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
A combination of particle-based simulations and self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is used
to study the stabilization of multiple ordered bicontinuous phases in blends of a diblock …

[HTML][HTML] Field-theoretic simulations of bottlebrush copolymers

RKW Spencer, MW Matsen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Traditional particle-based simulations struggle with large bottlebrush copolymers, consisting
of many side chains grafted to a backbone. Field-theoretical simulations (FTS) allow us to …

Morphology and phase diagram of linear triblock copolymers: Parallel real-space self-consistent-field-theory simulation

M Sun, P Wang, F Qiu, P Tang, H Zhang, Y Yang - Physical Review E …, 2008 - APS
A parallel algorithm designed for widely used distributed computer clusters is developed for
the real-space self-consistent-field theory for polymers. We adopt an efficient data partition …