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Dominik Düchs1, Friederike Schmid
1Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Universitatsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany.
Abstract:
We present an analysis of the structure of the fluctuation-induced microemulsion phase in a ternary blend of balanced AB diblock copolymers with equal amounts of A and B homopolymers. To this end, graphical analysis methods are employed to characterize two-dimensional configuration snapshots obtained with the recently introduced field-theoretic Monte Carlo method. We find that a microemulsion forms when the mean curvature diameter of the lamellar phase coincides roughly with the periodicity of the lamellar phase. Further, we provide evidence to the effect of a subclassification of the microemulsion into a genuine and a defect-driven region.
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