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Title The effects of long-ranged and short-ranged forces in confined near-critical polymeric liquids
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Abstract The relative importance of long- and short-ranged forces on the thermal fluctuations at polymer interfaces was investigated with neutron reflection. Polyolefin blends were synthesised to create polymer pairs with a tuned interaction parameter, allowing the exploration of situations from near criticality to strongly immiscible cases in thin-film systems. We have observed for the polymer interfacial width, a transition from a region where long-ranged forces dominate, at higher degree of incompatibility, to a region approaching criticality where short-ranged truncation forces are more relevant.
Organisation CCLRC , ISIS , ISIS-CRISP
Keywords Physics , Materials , Chemistry , confined , polymer liquids , ISIS 2005
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Journal Article Europhys Lett 71, no. 5 (2005): 763-769. doi:10.1209/epl/i2005-10162-7 2005