Tricontinuous double gyroid cubic phase in triblock copolymers of the ABA type

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 5634-5642

  Avgeropoulos, Apostolos ^a   Dair, Benita J ^b   Hadjichristidis, Nikos ^a   Thomas, Edwin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYISOPRENES; POLYSTYRENES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

BABINET PRINCIPLE; BRAGG PEAK; SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING; TRICONTINUOUS DOUBLE GYROID CUBIC PHASE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0031233531     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma970266z     Document Type: Article

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