University of Waterloo
Talks by Mark Matsen
Monte Carlo Field-Theoretic Simulations Applied to Block Copolymer Melts
Mark Matsen
University of Waterloo
Monte
Carlo field-theoretic simulations (MC-FTS) are performed on melts of symmetric
diblock copolymer for invariant polymerization indexes extending down to
experimentally relevant values of N=104. The simulations are
performed with a fluctuating composition field, W-(r), and a pressure
field, W+(r),
that follows the saddle-point approximation. Our study focuses on the
disordered-state structure function, S(k),
and the order-disorder transition (ODT).