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Stress Relaxation in Diblock Copolymers

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-09-25 v2

Abstract

We study stress relaxation in a strongly segregated lamellar mesophase of diblock copolymers. We consider the extreme limit in which chains are highly stretched and with their junction points confined to narrow interfaces. A lamella can be divided into "stress blobs" at some distance zz from the interface, with well defined local modulus G(z,ω)G(z,\omega) at frequency ω\omega. For sliding (compressional) stress the total modulus is transmitted in series (parallel) across the layer. We evaluate the local G(z,t)G(z,t) which shows, for a given height, a very broad spectrum of relaxation times.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102213,
  title  = {Stress Relaxation in Diblock Copolymers},
  author = {Adolfo M. Nemirovsky and Thomas A. Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102213},
  year   = {2009}
}
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