A small-angle neutron-scattering study of shear-induced ordering in the cubic phase of a block copolymer gel

Langmuir

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3182-3186

  Hamley, I W ^a   Pople, J A ^a   Booth, C ^b   Yang, Y W ^b   King, S M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

BODY CENTERED CUBIC (BCC) STRUCTURE; POLYOXYBUTYLENE; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING (SANS);

GELS;

EID: 0032499561     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la971191v     Document Type: Article

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