Thermoreversible gelation in solutions of associative polymers. 1. Statics

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1373-1385

  Semenov, Alexander N ^a,b   Rubinstein, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; GELATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLVENTS;

ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; EQUILIBRIUM MEAN FIELD THEORY; THERMOREVERSIBLE GELATION;

INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS;

EID: 0032001610     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma970616h     Document Type: Article

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