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Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 616–619 (1989)

Interfacial structure in polymer mixtures below the critical point

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Utsawa K. Chaturvedi, Ullrich Steiner, Omer Zak, Georg Krausch, and Jacob Klein
Polymer Research Department, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76 100, Israel

Received 20 March 1989; published in the issue dated 7 August 1989

The interfacial composition profile bwtween two polymer phases at temperatures below the upper critical solution point has been measured directly, using an ion-beam method based on nuclear reaction analysis. The interface width grows with time to a finite limiting value. The variation of the limiting interfacial width as the critical temperature is approached from below is in quantitative accord with mean-field theories.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.616
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.616
PACS:
61.16.Fk, 68.10.-m, 68.35.Fx