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February  2017, 37(2): 983-1012. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017041

A stationary core-shell assembly in a ternary inhibitory system

Xiaofeng Ren , and  Chong Wang

Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA

* Corresponding author: Xiaofeng Ren

Received  March 2015 Revised  January 2016 Published  November 2016

A ternary inhibitory system motivated by the triblock copolymer theoryis studied as a nonlocal geometric variational problem. The free energyof the system is the sum of two terms: the total size of the interfacesseparating the three constituents, and a longer ranging interaction energythat inhibits micro-domains from unlimited growth. In a particular parameterrange there is an assembly of many core-shells that exists as a stationaryset of the free energy functional. The cores form regions occupied by thefirst constituent of the ternary system, the shells form regionsoccupied by the second constituent, and the background is taken by thethird constituent. The constructive proof of the existence theorem revealsmuch information about the core-shell stationary assembly: asymptoticallyone can determine the sizes and locations of all the core-shells in theassembly. The proof also implies a kind of stability for the stationaryassembly.

Keywords: Core-shell assembly, ternary inhibitory system, triblock copolymer.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary:82B24, 82D60;Secondary:92C1.
Citation: Xiaofeng Ren, Chong Wang. A stationary core-shell assembly in a ternary inhibitory system. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (2) : 983-1012. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017041
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F.S. Bates and G.H. Fredrickson, Block copolymers -designer soft materials, Phys. Today, 52 (1999), 32-38. doi: 10.1063/1.882522. Google Scholar

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M. Morini and P. Sternberg, Cascade of minimizers for a nonlocal isoperimetric problem in thin domains, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 46 (2014), 2033-2051. doi: 10.1137/130932594. Google Scholar

[14]

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Y. Nishiura and I. Ohnishi, Some mathematical aspects of the microphase separation in diblock copolymers, Physica D, 84 (1995), 31-39. doi: 10.1016/0167-2789(95)00005-O. Google Scholar

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[27]

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X. Ren and J. Wei, Double tori solution to an equation of mean curvature and Newtonian potential, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 49 (2014), 987-1018. doi: 10.1007/s00526-013-0608-6. Google Scholar

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X. Ren and J. Wei, A double bubble assembly as a new phase of a ternary inhibitory system, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal., 215 (2015), 967-1034. doi: 10.1007/s00205-014-0798-x. Google Scholar

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I. Topaloglu, On a nonlocal isoperimetric problem on the two-sphere, Comm. Pure Appl. Anal., 12 (2013), 597-620. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.597. Google Scholar

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L. Xie, Analysis of the Long Range Interation in the Ternary System, PhD Thesis, The George Washington University.Google Scholar

Figure 1.  A double bubble assembly on the left and a core-shell assembly on the right
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