Abstract
The phase behavior of supported thin film mixtures (h ∼ 120 nm thick) of polystyrene (PS) brush-coated spherical nanoparticle and PS homopolymers is characterized by three regimes, depending on P, the degree of polymerization of the PS host, and N, the degree of polymerization of the grafted chains. Phase separation between the nanoparticles and the host chains occurs in samples for which N N*, preferential segregation of the grafted nanoparticles to the interfaces is accompanied by a structural instability (surface roughening). We identify this as regime I and the former as regime II. The system is miscible in regime III (P N*); the nanoparticles are dispersed throughout the film. There exists a region of partial miscibility that separates regimes I and III. The characteristics of regime I are reminiscent of phase separati...
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