WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1991-8747, E-ISSN: 2224-3429
Volume 15, 2020
Crumpling and Buckling in Membranes with Hexagonal Phase
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Abstract: We study the dynamics of a copolymer membrane diblock in hexagonal phase. We call diblock copolymer membrane a copolymer film with thickness of the order of the size of the domains and that it presents the possibility of deforming freely. In a flat system of copolymer, the dynamics of coarsenig produces the relaxation of energy by diffusion and annihilation of defects. In a copolymer membrane, relaxation of the energy of the hexagonal phase resulting from a combined effect of the diffusion and annihilation of defects and of the buckling process.