Abstract
We investigate the morphology and kinetics of microphase separation of diblock copolymers where each chain consists of a rod-like block and a flexible block. Simplified phenomenological model systems are introduced, which are coarse-grained in terms of the local concentration of blocks and the local director field of the rod part. Computer simulations of this set of time–evolution equations in two dimensions show that existence of the rod blocks drastically affects the structures of microphase-separated domains due to the elastic energy in the rod-block-rich domains.
