Journal article
Polymeric bicontinuous microemulsions
In
Physical Review Letters
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1997, Volume 79, Issue 5, pp. 849-852
Abstract
High molecular weight block copolymers can be viewed as macromolecular surfactants when blended with thermodynamically incompatible homopolymers. This Letter describes the formation of polymeric bicontinuous microemulsions in nurtures containing a model diblock copolymer and two homopolymers. Although we attribute development of this equilibrium morphology to the effects of fluctuations, mean-field theory provides a quantitative strategy for preparing the bicontinuous state at blend compositions near an isotropic Lifshitz point.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 849-852 |
| ISSN: | 10797114 and 00319007 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.849 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-8998-9390 and Almdal, K. |
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