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Marcus Müller1, Kostas Ch Daoulas, Yuki Norizoe

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Area of Science:

  • Polymer Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Computational Chemistry

Background:

  • Diblock copolymers self-assemble into ordered morphologies like lamellae.
  • Understanding interfacial free energies is crucial for predicting and controlling these structures.
  • Defects, such as T-junctions and surface reconstructions, significantly impact material properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compute the free energy of interfaces between different lamellar orientations in a symmetric diblock copolymer melt.
  • To investigate the free energy associated with a T-junction defect.
  • To analyze the free energy of lamellar structures on a patterned surface.

Main Methods:

  • Employed molecular simulation with a coarse-grained model of a symmetric diblock copolymer melt.
  • Utilized an external ordering field to reversibly relate defect structures to a reference state.
  • Applied expanded-ensemble and replica-exchange Monte Carlo techniques for accurate free energy calculations.

Main Results:

  • Quantified the free energy of a T-junction between perpendicular lamellar domains.
  • Determined the free energy of surface reconstruction for lamellae on a large-period striped surface.
  • Demonstrated the capability of the computational scheme to accurately calculate interfacial free energies.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides accurate free energy calculations for specific interfacial structures in diblock copolymer melts.
  • The methods developed are applicable to understanding defect energetics in complex polymer systems.
  • Results contribute to the fundamental understanding of polymer self-assembly and morphology control.