Title Fundamentals of Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Thin Films Author(s) Coveney, Sam Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. Description XVI, 171 p. 60 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note ??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 ISBN,Price 9783319193991 Keyword(s) 1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. Interfaces (Physical sciences) 4. Materials???Surfaces 5. Phase transitions (Statistical physics) 6. Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems 7. Polymer Sciences 8. Polymers???? 9. Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films 10. Surfaces (Physics) 11. Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films 12. THERMODYNAMICS 13. THIN FILMS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I06349     On Shelf