Micelles and gels of oxyethylene-oxybutylene diblock copolymers in aqueous solution: The effect of oxyethylene-block length

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2773-2785

  Derici, Leo ^a   Ledger, Sarah ^a   Mai, Shao Min ^a   Booth, Colin ^a   Hamley, Ian W ^b   Pedersen, Jan Skov ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; POLOXAMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICELLE; POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033153142     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a901108k     Document Type: Article

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