Scaling behavior of a model of block copolymers in three dimensions
- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 44 (10) , 6503-6507
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.44.6503
Abstract
We have studied the dynamical and equilibrium scaling behaviors of a coarse-grained model for microphase separation of block copolymers. Our numerical study has been carried out in three dimensions. We compute the power-law exponent θ characterizing the equilibrium microdomain size as a function of the molecular weight of the copolymers N as ∼, and conclude that we are able to study the weak-segregation regime, but not the true strong-segregation regime of the model. We have also tested scaling hypotheses connecting the microdomain size and the equilibrium structure factor of the block copolymers.
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