Abstract
We determine the interfacial properties of a three-component polymer blend in three-phase coexistence. We discuss how the presence of the third component affects the behavior of the interface between two phases and demonstrate the existence of a wetting transition in which one of the minority phases wets the other. Our results indicate that both first-and second-order wetting transitions can occur and that the range of parameters in which the wetting transition is second order may be experimentally accessible.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 55-62 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Macromolecules |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 1994 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Organic Chemistry
- Polymers and Plastics
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Materials Chemistry