Calculating phase diagrams of polymer-platelet mixtures using density functional theory: implications for polymer/clay composites

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 5681-5688

  Ginzburg, Valeriy V ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIXTURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

FLORY HUGGINS MIXING FREE ENERGY; POLYMER CHAIN LENGTH; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; SOMOZA TARAZONA FREE ENERGY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0032598408     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990135t     Document Type: Article

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