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 from the interface, with well defined local modulus at frequency . For sliding (compressional) stress the total modulus is transmitted in series (parallel) across the layer. We evaluate the local which shows, for a given height, a very broad spectrum of relaxation times.
Cite
@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}
}