Fundamentals Of Phase Separation In Polymer Blend Thin Films

This work sheds new light on fundamental aspects of phase separation in polymerblend thin films. A key feature underlying the theoretical models is the unification of onedimensional thermodynamic phase equilibria with film evolution phenomena in two and three dimensions. Initially an established phase portrait method useful for visualising and calculating phase equilibria of polymerblend films is generalised to systems without convenient simplifying symmetries.