<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We investigate the longtime behavior of solutions to Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system (also known as Model H) with singular (e.g. Flory-Huggins) potential and non-constant viscosity. We prove that initial boundary value problem generates a strongly continuous semigroup on suitable phase-space. Next, we establish existence global attractor exponential attract...

Abstract The description of gel swelling by Flory and Rehner using the original Flory–Huggins interaction parameter for polymer–solvent cannot be applied to most smart microgels. Here, we compare descriptions curves such microgels series expansions $$\chi$$ ? with results Hill-like equation . We study N -isop...

* This investigation was aided by grants from the American Cancer Society and the Jane Coffin Childs Fund for Medical Research. 1 The following abbreviations are used: DMBA, dimethylbenz(a)anthracene; BA, benz(a) anthracene; 3'-Me-DAB, 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene. 2 Huggins, C., L. C. Grand, and F. P. Brillantes, Nature, 189, 204 (1961). 3Huggins, C., S. Morii, and L. C. Grand, Ann. Sur...

A new theory model based on the local composition concept (TNRF-modified NRTL (TNRF-mNRTL) model) was developed to express the short-range contribution of the excess Gibbs energy for the solutions containing polymer and electrolyte. An equation represented the activity coefficient of solvent was derived from the proposed excess Gibbs energy equation. The short-range contribution of interaction ...

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) has been employed to study a blend of polystyrene and polybutadiene modified by copolymer additives. SANS data from the one-phase region approaching the phase boundary has been acquired for blends modified by random and diblock copolymers that have equal amounts of styrene and butadiene monomers as well as a random copolymer with an unequal monomer composit...

The author carries out numerical simulations of vesicle formation based on the density functional theory for block copolymer solutions. It is shown by solving the time evolution equations for concentrations that a polymer vesicle is spontaneously formed from the homogeneous state. The vesicle formation mechanism obtained by this simulation agrees with the results of other simulations based on t...

A linear correlation function is found for cloudpoint composition curves of ternary systems consisting of one polymer, one solvent and one non-solvent. The conditions for validity of this correlation function appear to be that the polymer is strongly incompatible with the non-solvent, and that only liquid-liquid demixing occurs. The linearized cloudpoint (LCP) curve is interpreted in terms of t...

The Flory-Huggins theory of flexible polymers mixtures @P. J. Flory, Principles of Polymer Chemistry ~Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1953!# and the Lebwohl-Lasher model of nematogens @G. Lasher, Phys. Rev. A 5, 1350 ~1972!; P. A. Lebwohl and G. Lasher, ibid. 6, 426 ~1972!# are combined to understand the phase behaviors of mixtures of flexible polymers ~coils! and small molecular liquid cryst...

Due to larger multiple scattering effects in the troposphere compared to that in the stratosphere, the optical path of tropospheric ozone is markedly enhanced (as compared with that of stratospheric ozone) in the Huggins bands from 310 to 345 nm. Model study of the direct and diffuse solar fluxes on the ground shows differences between tropospheric and stratospheric ozone. The characteristic si...