Stability of ordered phases in diblock copolymer melts

Macromolecules

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3242-3255

  Laradji, Mohamed ^a   Shi, An Chang ^b   Noolandi, Jaan ^b   Desai, Rashmi C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPOSITION; ELECTRONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STABILITY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

ANISOTROPIC COMPOSITION FLUCTUATION; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; ORDER-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; ORDERED PHASE; PHASE BOUNDARY; SCATTERING FUNCTION; SPINODAL LINE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0031548544     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9618437     Document Type: Article

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