Architecturally-induced tricontinuous cubic morphology in compositionally symmetric miktoarm starblock copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3390-3396

  Tselikas, Yiannis ^a   Hadjichristidis, Nikos ^a   Lescanec, Robert L ^b   Honeker, Christian C ^c   Wohlgemuth, Meinhard ^c   Thomas, Edwin L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; CHARACTERIZATION; CONFORMATIONS; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VOLUME FRACTION;

PERIODIC MICRODOMAIN STRUCTURE; TRICONTINUOUS CUBIC MORPHOLOGY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0030572131     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9515083     Document Type: Article

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