Stratification in bidisperse polymer brushes from neutron reflectivity

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2616-2621

  Levicky, Rastislav ^a,c   Koneripalli, Nagraj ^a,d   Tirrell, Matthew ^a   Satija, Sushil K ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUTRON REFLECTION; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PARAFFINS; PHASE INTERFACES; TOLUENE; VOLUME FRACTION;

CYCLOHEXANE; MEAN FIELD THEORY; POLYMER BRUSHES;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 0032047867     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma971278n     Document Type: Article

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