Abstract
A statistical thermodynamic treatment of phase separation in three-block copolymers (styrene-butadiene-styrene) is given; the formation of poly-styrene islands is favoured by surface energy terms and opposed by entropic terms. For a given system, the average equilibrium size of an island appears to be an inverse function of temperature. Comparison between theoretically expected island dimensions and experimental results from electron microscopy is encouraging.
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