title: Influence of chain rigidity on the phase behavior of wormlike diblock copolymers.
abstract: We utilize the wormlike chain model in the framework of the self-consistent field theory to investigate the influence of chain rigidity on the phase diagram of AB diblock copolymers in the full three-dimensional space. We develop an efficient numerical scheme that can be used to calculate the physical properties of ordered microstructures self-assembled from semiflexible block copolymers. The calculation describes the entire physical picture of the phase diagram, crossing from the flexible over to rodlike polymer behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jeff Z Y
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Chen