Micro lamellar morphology

As an alternative to chemical staining, lamellar morphology can be investigated by examining thin replicas of ion or chemically etched fracture or micro-tomed surfaces [36,42]. 

We emphasize that when the C component is absent (tj) = 0) the above model reduces to the well-known model for block copolymers [56-59] or reactive polymer blends [9,10]. In this case, the evolution of the reactive AB system is governed solely by Eq. (8.2) and the morphology of the mixture resembles the lamellar structure formed by micro phase-separated symmetric diblock copolymers [9]. (In the context of our work, we only consider reactive blends, and do not consider diblock copolymers.) When r+ = r = r for such reactive binary mixtures, a linear stability analysis gives the growth rate, w k), for the kth mode of the fluctuations of the order parameter around the homogeneous value cp = 0 as ... 

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