Gradient refractive index polymers produced in a centrifugal field

Advanced Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 567-570

  Van Duijnhoven, Frank ^c   Bastiaansen, Cees W M ^a   Van Duijnhoven, F G H ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; GLASS TRANSITION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSPARENCY;

INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY; LORENTZ-LORENTZ EQUATION; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE (LCST); POLYTETRAFLUOROPROPYLMETHACRYLATE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0032627451     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(199905)11:7<567::AID-ADMA567>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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