Induced long-range order in crosslinked 'one-dimensional' stacks of fluid monolayers

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6651, 1997, Pages 576-579

  Wong, Gerald C L ^a   De Jeu, Wim H ^a   Shaot, Henry ^a   Liang, Keng S ^b   Zentel, Rudolf ^c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030765938     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39271     Document Type: Article

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