Abstract

Two intermediate phases have been observed upon heating an asymmetric poly(ethylenepropylene)-poly(ethylethylene) diblock copolymer between lamellar and hexagonal cylinder phases near the order-disorder transition. Phase transitions betwen ordered morphologies are indicated by the temperature dependence of the dynamic shear moduli, and SANS experiments are used to identify these structures as hexagonally modulated lamellae and layered hexagonal packed channels. The observed wavevectors associated with the interlayer scattering for these structures are incommensurate, leading to an a periodic structure in which the long range translational order of the layers is destroyed

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