Collapse of a polymer brush in a poor solvent probed by noise analysis of a scanning force microscope cantilever

Langmuir

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3999-4004

  Roters, Andreas ^a   Schimmel, Martin ^a   Rühe, Jürgen ^a   Johannsmann, Diethelm ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SWELLING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TOLUENE; VISCOELASTICITY;

LORENTZ CURVE; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPE CANTILEVER;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 0032121114     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la971409d     Document Type: Article

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