Phase diagrams of diblock copolymers in electric fields: A self-consistent field theory study

J Wu, X Wang, Y Ji, L He, S Li - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
… We investigated the phase diagrams of diblock copolymers in external electrostatic fields
by using real-space self-consistent field theory. The lamella, cylinder, sphere, and ellipsoid …

Self-consistent field theory for melts of low-molecular-weight diblock copolymer

MW Matsen - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
… This paper applies self-consistent field theory (SCFT) to discrete polymer chains consisting
… To demonstrate its effectiveness, we examine diblock copolymer melts where the polymer …

Self-consistent mean field theory of the microphases of diblock copolymers

JD Vavasour, MD Whitmore - Macromolecules, 1992 - ACS Publications
… mean field theory, we have examined the phase behavior of diblock copolymers from the …
It agrees with Leibler’s RPA theory in weak segregation forsymmetric copolymers, but there …

Diblock copolymer thin films: A field-theoretic simulation study

A Alexander-Katz, GH Fredrickson - Macromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
Field Theory Model. In this section we present the diblock copolymer model that will be used
in … Specifically, we invoke the “standard” field theory model of an incompressible AB diblock

Phase behavior of tapered diblock copolymers from self-consistent field theory

JR Brown, SW Sides, LM Hall - ACS Macro Letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
diblock copolymers are similar to AB diblock copolymers, but … profiles using self-consistent
field theory. Adding tapers shifts … the theoretical phase diagram of model tapered copolymers

Geometric theory of diblock copolymer phases

GM Grason, BA DiDonna, RD Kamien - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
… We analyze the energetics of spherelike micellar phases in diblock copolymers in terms of
… and corroborate this through a self-consistent field theory. Because phases with columnar or …

Continuous polydispersity in a self-consistent field theory for diblock copolymers

SW Sides, GH Fredrickson - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
… to polydisperse AB diblock systems. We focus specifically on a model of AB diblock melts, …
This model and our results are particularly relevant to diblock copolymers produced by the …

Self-consistent field theory of diblock copolymer melts at patterned surfaces

D Petera, M Muthukumar - The Journal of chemical physics, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
… Self-consistent field theory is used to investigate the density profile of diblock copolymer melts
… For strong surface interactions, the lamellae for symmetric diblock copolymers comply with …

Self-consistent field theory for diblock copolymers grafted to a sphere

B Vorselaars, JU Kim, TL Chantawansri… - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
… We apply the algorithm to a simple system of AB diblock copolymers grafted to a spherical …
transitions produced by varying the composition of the diblock. Just as for flat brushes, 4 the A-…

Structural changes of diblock copolymer melts due to an external electric field: A self-consistent-field theory study

CY Lin, M Schick, D Andelman - Macromolecules, 2005 - ACS Publications
diblock copolymers in the presence of an external electric field. We employ self-consistent-…
of the bulk phase diagram of diblock copolymers in an applied electric field and focus upon its …