Evidence of liquid crystal texture in slowly solidified films of polystyrene-block-polyisoprene diblock copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3163-3166

  Wang, Wei ^a   Hashimoto, Takeji ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYISOPRENES; POLYSTYRENES; TOLUENE;

LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0032673376     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990030q     Document Type: Article

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