Morphological variations of ABC triblock copolymers through the blending of B or A/C homopolymers, all with short chain lengths, were studied experimentally. The samples were symmetric ISP triblock copolymers, where I, S, and P denote polyisoprene, polystyrene, and poly(2‐vinylpyridine), and component homopolymers. Microphase‐separated structures of the solvent‐cast films were observed with transmission electron microscopy and small‐angle X‐ray scattering. For an ISP/S system, the lattice constant of the tricontinuous gyroid structure (G‐structure) increased with an increase in the volume fraction of S (ϕs) if the amount of added homopolymer was small, but it reached a certain limit, reflecting the fact that the midblock chain had a limit for chain stretching. For I/ISP/P blends, on the contrary, the lattice constant of the G‐structure continued increasing with decreasing ϕs. This result shows that the I and P domains did not have a limit for chain stretching because the two end blocks had free ends. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 40: 1135–1141, 2002
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