Porod scattering

TBD

Interfacial width

High-q (Porod regime) SAXS (or SANS) data can be evaluated to measure the interfacial thickness between two phases. For instance, in polymer blends or block-copolymers, the scaling can be evaluated quantitatively.

• Frank S. Bates, C. V. Berney, R. E. Cohen Microphase structure of solvent-cast diblock copolymers and copolymer-homopolymer blends containing spherical microdomains Macromolecules 1983, 16(7), 1101-1108. doi: 10.1021/ma00241a011
• Frank S. Bates, Glenn, H. Fredrickson Block Copolymer Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 1990, 41, 525-557. doi: 10.1146/annurev.pc.41.100190.002521
  • Refs 5, 19-22.

See Also

• Diffuse scattering
• Porod invariant