@article{b27f6e610bd2425ca11fbdc010e976d9,
title = "Phase transitions in thin films of symmetric binary polymer mixtures",
abstract = "We report lattice and off-lattice computer simulation studies on the phase coexistence of symmetric polymer blends confined between two hard walls to which neither component is preferred energetically. We find that the phase diagrams for thin films are always {\textquoteleft}inside{\textquoteright} those for thicker films. While one reason for this is the loss of neighbours due to the presence of the wall, another important factor is the somewhat surprising surface segregation of the minority blend component.",
author = "Kumar, {Sanat K.} and Hai Tang and Igal Szleifer",
note = "Funding Information: S.K. acknowledges the financial assistance of the National Science Foundation (DMR-9024234), and the American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Foundation. I.S. is a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Awardee and he also acknowledges the financial support from Shell Research BV (Amsterdam). This work was developed during the course of a collaboration between one of us (S.K.) with Tom Russell (IBM) and Arvind Hariharan (MIT): their insights into this problem are gratefully acknowledged. We acknowledge Professor K. Binder for helpful comments on the original manuscript, and Dr. P. K. Brazhnik for pointing out errors in our original calculations.",
year = "1994",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/00268979400100581",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "81",
pages = "867--872",
journal = "Molecular Physics",
issn = "0026-8976",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "4",
}