Weakly segregated block copolymers: Anisotropic fluctuations and kinetics of order-order and order-disorder transitions

Polymer

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 4639-4648

  Qi, Shuyan ^a   Wang, Zhen Gang ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic fluctuations; Block copolymers; Phase transition kinetics

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE SEPARATION; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANISOTROPIC FLUCTUATIONS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0032165274     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(97)10139-2     Document Type: Article

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