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Using dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulation method, we study the phase separation dynamics in block copolymer (BCP) melt in $d=3$, subjected to external stimuli such as light. An initial homogeneous BCP melt is rapidly quenched to a temperature $T < T_c$, where $T_c$ is the critical temperature. We then let the system go through alternate light on and off cycles. An on-cycle breaks the stimuli-sensitive bonds connecting both the blocks A and B in BCP melt, and during the off-cycle, broken bonds reconnect. By simulating the effect of light, we isolate scenarios where phase separation begins with the light off (set 1); the cooperative interactions within the system allow it to undergo microphase separation. When the phase separation starts with the light on (set 2), the system undergoes macrophase separation due to the bond breaking. Here, we report the role of alternate cycles on domain morphology by varying bond-breaking probability for both the sets 1 and 2, respectively. We observe that the scaling functions depend upon the conditions mentioned above that change the time scale of the evolving morphologies in various cycles. However, in all the cases, the average domain size respects the power-law growth: $R(t)sim t^{phi}$ at late times, here $phi$ is the dynamic growth exponent. After a short-lived diffusive growth ($phi sim 1/3$) at early times, $phi$ illustrates a crossover from the viscous hydrodynamic ($phi sim 1$) to the inertial hydrodynamic ($phi sim 2/3$) regimes at late times.
Simulations of five different coarse-grained models of symmetric diblock copolymer melts are compared to demonstrate a universal (i.e., model-independent) dependence of the free energy on the invariant degree of polymerization $overline{N}$, and to s
We study the thermodynamics of binary mixtures wherein the volume fraction of the minority component is less than the amount required to form a flat interface. Based on an explicit microscopic mean field theory, we show that the surface tension domin
We present the results from dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) simulations of phase separation dynamics in ternary (ABC) fluids mixture in $d=3$ where components A and B represent the simple fluids and component C represents a polymeric fluid. Here,
Synperonic F-108 (generic name, pluronic) is a micelle forming triblock copolymer of type ABA, where A is polyethylene oxide (PEO) and B is polypropylene oxide (PPO). At high temperatures, the hydrophobicity of the PPO chains increase, and the pluron
We examined the kinetics of the transformation from the lamellar (LAM) to the hexagonally packed cylinder (HEX) phase for the triblock copolymer, polystyrene-b-poly (ethylene-co-butylene)-b-polystyrene (SEBS) in dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a selective s