Surface segregation in stereochemically asymmetric polymer blends

Langmuir

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 915-920

  Tretinnikov, Oleg N ^a   Ohta, Koji ^b  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b OSAKA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CONTACT ANGLE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MACROMOLECULES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THIN FILMS;

STEREOCHEMICALLY ASYMMETRIC POLYMER BLENDS; SURFACE SEGREGATION; SYNDIOTACTIC POLYMERS;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0031998859     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la9708391     Document Type: Article

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