Designing patterned surfaces by grafting Y-shaped copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2667-2673

  Zhulina, Ekaterina ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SOLVENTS; SURFACES; THIN FILMS;

CHAIN LENGTH; GRAFTING DENSITY; HOMOPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0030107511     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma951396f     Document Type: Article

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