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Phase separation kinetics and morphology in a polymer blend with diblock copolymer additive

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The phase diagram for a low molecular weight blend of deuterated polystyrene (PSD) and polybutadiene (PB) was determined by temperature jump light scattering (TJLS) measurements and phase contrast optical microscopy (PCOM). The PSD/PB blend exhibited upper critical solution temperature behavior, and the critical temperatures measured by these two techniques were consistent. Upon addition of 0 to 0.12 mass fraction of a comparable molecular weight PSD-PB symmetric diblock copolymer, a linear decrease in the phase transition temperature was observed with increasing diblock copolymer content. At a constant, shallow quench depth, the kinetics of phase separation via spinodal decomposition as measured by TJLS were greatly retarded by the presence of the copolymer. Additionally, the time dependence of the concentration fluctuation growth did not seem to follow a universal functional form anywhere in the accessible q range when the diblock was present. The results of morphology study of the blends in the late stage of phase separation by PCOM also indicated that the phase separated domain sizes did not grow to the same size for a given annealing time as diblock content increased.

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Sung, L., Hess, D.B., Jackson, C.L. et al. Phase separation kinetics and morphology in a polymer blend with diblock copolymer additive. J Polym Res 3, 139–150 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01494523

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