Asymptotic crossover in polymer blends
- 1 August 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 48 (2), 1579-1582
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.48.1579
Abstract
Susceptibility and specific-heat data for a low-molecular-weight polymer blend near its critical point of unmixing are compared with a match-point renormalization-group theory which describes the crossover from classical mean-field to fluctuation-dominated behavior near the critical temperature. Using the Flory-Huggins form of the bare free-energy density, the crossover function requires only two free parameters.Keywords
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