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The authors extend their earlier work on the stability of a reacting binary polymer blend with respect to demixing [D. J. Read, Macromolecules 31, 899 (1998); P. I. C. Teixeira , Macromolecules 33, 387 (2000)] to the case where one of the polymers is rod-like and may order nematically. As before, the authors combine the random phase approximation for the free energy with a Markov chain model for the chemistry to obtain the spinodal as a function of the relevant degrees of reaction. These are then calculated by assuming a simple second-order chemical kinetics. Results are presented, for linear systems, which illustrate the effects of varying the proportion of coils and rods, their relative sizes, and the strength of the nematic interaction between the rods. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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Flexible Polyurethane Foam Copolymer Melts Polymer-Solutions Synchrotron Saxs Nematic Polymers Block-Copolymers Thermodynamics Transition Mixtures Systems
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TEIXEIRA, P. I. C.; BUESCU, J. - Demixing instability in coil-rod blends undergoing polycondensation reactions. Journal of Chemical Physics . ISSN 0021-9606. Vol. 126, nr.7 (2007), p. 074901-1/074901-9.