Microscopic parameters influencing the phase separation in compressible binary blends of linear semiflexible polymers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 7422-7437

  Foreman, K W ^a   Freed, Karl F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMER BLENDS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STIFFNESS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ATHERMAL BLENDS; CONSTANT VOLUME SPINODALS; LATTICE CLUSTER THEORY; LINEAR SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; POLYMER REFERENCE INTERACTION SITE MODEL; POLYMERIZATION INDICES;

PHASE SEPARATION;

EID: 0031141383     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.473702     Document Type: Article

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