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200 10$aFundamentals of Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Thin Films /$fby Sam Coveney
205   $a1st ed. 2015.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2015.
215   $a1 online resource (179 p.)
225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053
300   $a"Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Sheffield, UK."
311   $a3-319-19398-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
327   $aDevelopment of Theory for Bulk Polymer-Blend Systems.-  Development of Theory for Polymer-Blend Thin Films -- Hamiltonian Phase Portraits for Polymer-Blend Thin Films -- Lateral Phase Separation via Surface Bifurcation -- Coupled Surface Roughening and Phase Separation.
330   $a This work sheds new light on fundamental aspects of phase separation in polymer-blend thin films. A key feature underlying the theoretical models is the unification of one-dimensional thermodynamic phase equilibria with film evolution phenomena in two- and three dimensions. Initially, an established 'phase portrait' method, useful for visualising and calculating phase equilibria of polymer-blend films, is generalised to systems without convenient simplifying symmetries. Thermodynamic equilibria alone are then used to explain a film roughening mechanism in which laterally coexisting phases can have different depths in order to minimise free energy. The phase portraits are then utilised to demonstrate that simulations of lateral phase separation via a transient wetting layer, which conform very well with experiments, can be satisfactorily explained by 1D phase equilibria and a 'surface bifurcation' mechanism. Lastly, a novel 3D model of coupled phase separation and dewetting is developed, which demonstrates that surface roughening shadows phase separation in thin films.
410  0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5053
606   $aPhase transformations (Statistical physics)
606   $aThermodynamics
606   $aMaterials?Surfaces
606   $aThin films
606   $aPolymers
606   $aSurfaces (Physics)
606   $aInterfaces (Physical sciences)
606   $aPhase Transitions and Multiphase Systems$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P25099
606   $aThermodynamics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P21050
606   $aSurfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Z19000
606   $aPolymer Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C22008
606   $aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P25160
615  0$aPhase transformations (Statistical physics)
615  0$aThermodynamics.
615  0$aMaterials?Surfaces.
615  0$aThin films.
615  0$aPolymers.
615  0$aSurfaces (Physics)
615  0$aInterfaces (Physical sciences)
615 14$aPhase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.
615 24$aThermodynamics.
615 24$aSurfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.
615 24$aPolymer Sciences.
615 24$aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films.
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700   $aCoveney$b Sam$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0792296
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906   $aBOOK
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996   $aFundamentals of Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Thin Films$91771581
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