Self-consistent calculations of block copolymer solution phase behavior

Macromolecules

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3556-3565

  Huang, Ching I ^a   Lodge, Timothy P ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICELLES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLVENTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATION (RPA) METHOD; SELF CONSISTENT MEAN FIELD (SCMF) THEORY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0032474358     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma980007p     Document Type: Article

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