Equilibrium orientation of confined diblock copolymer films

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3097-3103

  Pickett, Galen T ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

EQUILIBRIUM ORIENTATION; LAMELLAR PHASE; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD MODEL;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0031143216     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9617173     Document Type: Article

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