Ricerc@Sapienza

Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) are a relatively new construction material. Their attractive features, such as lightness and durability, are currently paving an attractive way for structural engineering applications. However, since their mechanical properties are strongly influenced by the arrangement of the fibers (which is dictated by the production process), more research is still needed to fully characterize the material and to predict its behavior under different multi-axial actions.

Stimulated by experimental evidence in the field of solution-born thin films, we study the morphology formation in a three state lattice system subjected to the evaporation of one component. The practical problem that we address is the understanding of the parameters that govern morphology formation from a ternary mixture upon evaporation, as is the case in the fabrication of thin films from solution for organic photovoltaics.