Self-assembly of ABC dendrimer by real-space self-consistent mean field theory in a two-dimensional space
Abstract
Microphases and triangle phase diagrams of ABC dendrimers with different chain lengths of the second generation are investigated by a real-space implementation of self-consistent mean field theory in a two-dimensional (2D) space. Seven main stable ordered morphologies have been observed in the intermediate-segregation regime, including “three-color” lamellae phase (LAM3), “three-color” hexagonal honeycomb phase (HEX3), dodecagon-hexagon-tetragon phase (DOHT), octagon-octagon-tetragon phase (OOT), lamellae phase with alternating beads (LAM + AB), decagon-hexagon-tetragon and decagon-hexagon-hexagon phase ([DEHT;DEHH]), and core-shell hexagonal lattice phase (CSH). Simulation experiments reveal that when the volume fractions of three different