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Cylindrical Micelles in Rigid-Flexible Diblock Copolymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2011

D.R.M Williams  and
G.H. Fredrickson
D.R.M Williams
Affiliation:
Departments of Materials and Chemical & Nuclear Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A
G.H. Fredrickson
Affiliation:
Departments of Materials and Chemical & Nuclear Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A
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Abstract

We present a theoretical study of a melt of diblock copolymers consisting of a rigid rod and a flexible tail. It is shown that in addition to the lamellax phases previously discussed, there also exist phases of “hockey puck” micelles, where the rods are packed axially into cylinders. These phases occupy most of the phase diagram previously thought to consist of monolayer lamellae. It is argued that spherical micelles probably do not exist.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 248: Symposium O – Complex Fluids , 1991 , 377
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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