Long-Range Surface-Directed Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation: A Computational Study.

Shima Ghaffari, Philip K Chan, Mehrab Mehrvar

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The Effect of Conductive Heat Transfer on the Morphology Formation in Polymer Solutions Undergoing Thermally Induced Phase Separation.Polymers · 2022
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Long-Range Surface-Directed Polymerization-Induced Phase Separation: A Computational Study.Polymers · 2021
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Shima GhaffariDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.

Philip K ChanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.

Mehrab MehrvarDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.

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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada -Ryerson University -

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Abstract

The presence of a surface preferably attracting one component of a polymer mixture by the long-range van der Waals surface potential while the mixture undergoes phase separation by spinodal decomposition is called long-range surface-directed spinodal decomposition (SDSD). The morphology achieved under SDSD is an enrichment layer(s) close to the wall surface and a droplet-type structure in the bulk. In the current study of the long-range surface-directed polymerization-induced phase separation, the surface-directed spinodal decomposition of a monomer-solvent mixture undergoing self-condensation polymerization was theoretically simulated. The nonlinear Cahn-Hilliard and Flory-Huggins free energy theories were applied to investigate the phase separation phenomenon. The long-range surface potential led to the formation of a wetting layer on the surface. The thickness of the wetting layer was found proportional to time

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long-range surface potentialpolymerization-induced phase separationsurface-directed spinodal decompositionwetting layer

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PMID33466703

DOI10.3390/polym13020256

PMCPMC7828815

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