Friederike Schmid

Particle-Mediated Tuning of Defect Stability in Lamellar Block Copolymer Systems

We study how colloidal inclusions modify the formation energy of dislocation pairs in lamellar block copolymer systems. Using a hybrid particle/Ginzburg--Landau model, we calculate defect formation energies by comparing defect-free and defect-containing states with and without embedded colloids. Finite-size scaling is...