Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends
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Glassy states and microphase separation in cross-linked homopolymer blends
– The physical properties of blends of distinct homopolymers, cross-linked beyond the gelation point, are addressed via a Landau approach involving a pair of coupled order-parameter fields: one describing vulcanisation, the other describing local phase separation. Thermal concentration fluctuations, present at the time of cross-linking, are frozen in by cross-linking, and the structure of the r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2004-10522-9