Abstract
A novel procedure for SANS data analysis is described which enables one to use the fitted parameters to compute the average mean, Gaussian and square mean curvatures of the interface in systems which show a micro-phase-separated bicontinuous structure. This procedure also leads to a 3-D reconstruction of the connected internal interface which allows one to visualize the mesoscopic scale morphology of the material. The method has been successfully applied to various bicontinuous structures such as microemulsions made of surfactant, water and oil, porous silica glasses and phase-separated homopolymer blends. In this lecture, we show examples of analyses of SANS data taken from one-phase bicontinuous microemulsions at the hydrophile-lipophile-balance temperature and a light scattering intensity taken from a symmetric micro-phase-separated polymer blend at the late stage of spinodal decomposition.
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