Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mphil-in-micro-and-nanotechnology-enterprise-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/paper-2/section-a-iii/18/iii/solution

Reading the lowest point of the order-disorder boundary in the supplied experimental diagram gives approximately
(about –, allowing for the graphical resolution). The ordered region just above that minimum is lamellar.
This is a reading of the supplied polyisoprene-polystyrene phase diagram. It should not be replaced by the often quoted symmetric-chain mean-field theory value : that refers to a different idealization and is not the minimum drawn here.

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