Theory of surface deformations of polymer brushes in solution

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3474-3480

  Likhtman, A E ^a,b,c,d   Anastasiadis, S H ^b   Semenov, A N ^a,b,c,d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SOLVENTS; SURFACE TENSION;

POLYMER BRUSH; POLYMER CHAIN;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0032665303     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma980572s     Document Type: Article

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