Thermodynamic Free Energy Behavior of Diblock Copolymer Chains Confined Between Planar Surfaces Having End-Tethered Flexible Polymer Molecules
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...The earlier lattice model[52] specifically does not take into account the elastic free energy of stretching of the tethered molecules due to the short length of the tethered chains....
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...Based on a linear viscoelasticity[34] study of the intercalated PSPI-silicate nanocomposite, it was concluded that the viscoelastic moduli are strongly correlated to the mesoscale structure of such a composite and that the interaction strengths between the different chemical species as well as the molecular weight of the block copolymer chain (of highly...
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...The intercalation of poly(styrene-b-isoprene) (PSPI) between clay (layered silicates) platelets provides a classic system[34,40] in which the confining flat surfaces (clay platelets) contain end-tethered organic hydrophobic molecules that can interact favorably with one of the blocks and also one of the blocks (PS) interacts favorably with the clay surface itself via dipolar interactions (due to the phenyl rings in PS chains)....
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