Structure formation via polymer demixing in spin-cast films

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 4995-5003

  Walheim, Stefan ^a   Böltau, Martin ^a   Mlynek, Jürgen ^a   Krausch, Georg ^a,b   Steiner, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

POLYMER DEMIXING; SPIN CASTING;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 0031206766     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9619288     Document Type: Article

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