Transient instability upon temperature quench in weakly ordered block copolymers
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Transient instability upon temperature quench in weakly ordered block copolymers
We report a novel transient instability upon temperature quench in weakly ordered block copolymer microphases possessing a soft direction or directions, such as the lamellar and hexagonal cylinder ~HEX! phases. We show that reequilibration of the order parameter is accompanied by transient long wavelength undulation of the layers or cylinders—with an initial wavelength that depends on the depth...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Chemical Physics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0021-9606,1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.480422