Abstract
Small-angle scattering is a powerful tool to investigate micellar structure, and a model form factor proposed by Pedersen and Gerstenberg [Pedersen, J. S.; Gerstenberg, M. Macromolecules 1996, 29, 1363-1365] has been used quite frequently to analyze experimentally obtained scattering data of block copolymer micelles. Their model consists of a spherical core and the Gaussian corona chains attached to the core surface; the corona chains are considered to be approximately continuously (evenly) distributed on the core surface. In this paper, we present a micellar form factor model in which the corona chains are discretely distributed on the core surface. Our proposed discrete model was found to deviate from the Pedersen-Gerstenberg model as well as another model [Svaneborg, C.; Pedersen, J. S. Phys. Rev. E 2001, 64, R01802.], which incorporates the approximate interference effect between the corona chains, in conditions in which the scattering from the corona chains is stronger than that from a core with lower number density of the corona chains.
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