Resonantly enhanced off-specular X-ray scattering from polymer/polymer interfaces⋆

The European Physical Journal E - Tập 17 Số 3 - Trang 353-359 - 2005
Hu, Xuesong1, Jiao, Xuesong2, Narayanan, Suresh3, Jiang, Zhang4, K. Sinha, Sunil5, Lurio, L. B.2, Lal, Jyotsana1
1Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA
2Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA
3Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA
4Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
5Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA

Tóm tắt

We have used measurements of the absolute intensity of diffuse X-ray scattering to extract the interfacial tension of a buried polymer/polymer interface. Diffuse scattering was excited by an X-ray standing wave whose phase was adjusted to have a high intensity at the polymer/polymer interface and simultaneously a node at the polymer/air interface. This method permits the capillary-wave-induced roughness of the interface, and hence the interfacial tension, to be measured independently of the polymer/polymer interdiffusion.

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