Morphological structures formed by grafted polymers in poor solvents.
We study a system of grafted polymers in a poor solvent by self-consistent-field methods as well as Monte-Carlo simulation methods. We observe a number of different morphological structures including an inverted solvent micelle or hole in the polymer layer, a lamella-like micelle structure, and fused, spherical micelle structures. These structures can be obtained by either varying the grafting density or chain length. We also develop a scaling theory for the existence of these structures and find reasonable agreement between this theory and our numerical calculations.
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.
Sudip K
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Pattanayek
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Pham
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Pereira