Sharp interface limit of an energy modelling nanoparticle-polymer blends

DOI10.4171/IFB/364MaRDI QIDQ344478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lia Bronsard, Ihsan Topaloglu, Stan Alama

Publication date 22 November 2016

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01206

zbMATH Keywords

\(\Gamma\)-convergencenanoparticlesphase separationisoperimetric problemself-assemblyblock copolymers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Analysis of microstructure in solids (74N15) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: We identify the $Gamma$-limit of a nanoparticle-polymer model as the number of particles goes to infinity and as the size of the particles and the phase transition thickness of the polymer phases approach zero. The limiting energy consists of two terms: the perimeter of the interface separating the phases and a penalization term related to the density distribution of the infinitely many small nanoparticles. We prove that local minimizers of the limiting energy admit regular phase boundaries and derive necessary conditions of local minimality via the first variation. Finally we discuss possible critical and minimizing patterns in two dimensions and how these patterns vary from global minimizers of the purely local isoperimetric problem.

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