Copolymer-homopolymer blends: global energy minimisation and global energy bounds

Yves van Gennip; Mark A. Peletier

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Copolymer-homopolymer blends: global energy minimisation and global energy bounds

Yves van Gennip·Mark A. Peletier

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We study a variational model for a diblock-copolymer/homopolymer blend. The energy functional is a sharp-interface limit of a generalisation of the Ohta-Kawasaki energy. In one dimension, on the real line and on the torus, we prove existence of minimisers of this functional and we describe in complete detail the structure and energy of stationary points. Furthermore we characterise the conditions under which the minimisers may be non-unique. In higher dimensions we construct lower and upper bounds on the energy of minimisers, and explicitly compute the energy of spherically symmetric configurations.

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Yves van Gennip, Mark A. Peletier. 2007-10-30. Copolymer-homopolymer blends: global energy minimisation and global energy bounds. https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3222

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