Effect of long-range surface interactions on wetting transitions of polymer mixtures
- 11 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 66 (6) , 727-730
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.727
Abstract
We examine the effect of long-range surface interactions on surface wetting phase transitions in polymer mixtures. Within a perturbation scheme, we have found an analytic solution for the volume-fraction profile near the surface which can be compared with that obtained from a model with short-range surface interactions only. We find that the long-range interactions should not be ignored in the interpretation of recent experimental results.Keywords
This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Form of the Enriched Surface Layer in Polymer BlendsEurophysics Letters, 1990
- First-order wetting transitions of polymer mixtures in contact with a wallMacromolecules, 1989
- Enrichment depth profiles in polymer blends measured by forward recoil spectrometryApplied Physics Letters, 1989
- Surface Enrichment in an Isotopic Polymer BlendPhysical Review Letters, 1989
- Interface wandering in adsorbed and bulk phases, pure and impureJournal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 2: Molecular and Chemical Physics, 1986
- Surface spinodals and extended wetting in fluids and polymer solutionsThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1983
- Theory of phase equilibriums in systems containing block copolymersMacromolecules, 1983
- Critical point wettingThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1977
- Theory of inhomogeneous polymers: Lattice model for polymer–polymer interfacesThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1975
- Theory of inhomogeneous polymers: Fundamentals of the Gaussian random-walk modelThe Journal of Chemical Physics, 1975