Competition and complexity in amphiphilic polymer morphology

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2019.06.010zbMATH Open1453.82096arXiv1711.00419OpenAlexW2963232142WikidataQ127449440 ScholiaQ127449440MaRDI QIDQ2223397FDOQ2223397

Authors: Andrew Christlieb, Noa Kraitzman, Keith Promislow 

Publication date: 28 January 2021

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the competitive evolution of codimension one and two morphologies within the $H^{-1}$ gradient flow of the strong Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation. On a slow time scale a sharp hypersurface reduction yields a degenerate Mullins-Sekerka evolution for both codimension one and two hypersurfaces, leading to a geometric flow that depends locally on curvatures couples to the dynamic value of the spatially constant far-field chemical potential. Both codimension one and two morphologies admit two classes of bifurcations, one leads to pearling, a short-wavelength in-plane modulation of interfacial width, the other flips motion by curvature to the locally-ill posed motion against curvature, which leads to fingering instabilities. We present a bifurcation diagram for the morphological competition, and compare our results quantitatively to simulations of the full system and qualitatively to simulations of self-consistent mean field models and laboratory experiments; illuminating the role of the pearling bifurcation in the development of complex network morphologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00419

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zbMATH Keywords

multiscale analysisnetwork formationfunctionalized Cahn-Hilliard energygeometric evolutionamphiphilic interfacecurvature driven flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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