Interactions between polymer-coated surfaces in poor solvents. 1. Surfaces grafted with A and B homopolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 7559-7570

  Singh, Chandralekha ^a,b   Pickett, Galen T ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATED MATERIALS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY; SOLVENTS; SURFACES;

HOMOPOLYMERS; SOLVOPHOBICITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY;

GRAFT COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0030569134     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9608129     Document Type: Article

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