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Sudip K Pattanayek1, T T Pham, G G Pereira
1School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.
Abstract:
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.
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