Wetting description of block copolymer thin films

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3793-3810

  Milner, Scott T ^a   Morse, David C ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITION; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYNOMIALS; SURFACES; WETTING;

CAPILLARY WAVES; COMMENSURABILITY; FILM THICKNESS; ISOTROPIC LAMELLAR TRANSITION; MEAN FIELD THEORY; PHASE TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0030263570     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.3793     Document Type: Article

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