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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Coveney Sam"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Fundamentals of Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Thin Films / / by Sam Coveney"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"3-319-19399-6"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2015.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (179 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"547.7046"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Phase transformations (Statistical physics)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Thermodynamics"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Materials—Surfaces"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Thin films"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Polymers"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Surfaces (Physics)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Interfaces (Physical sciences)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Polymer Sciences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","\"Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Sheffield, UK.\""]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Development 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."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto"," 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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]