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Microphase Boundaries and Chain Conformations in Multiply Branched Diblock Copolymers

We consider a melt of diblock copolymers consisting of a linear A block connected to a regularly branched B block. A simple “Alexander−de Gennes”-type calculation of the free energy for lamellar, cylindrical, and spherical microphases in strong segregation reveals large shifts in the phase boundarie...

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Published in:Macromolecules 1999-10, Vol.32 (20), p.6831-6836
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