Surface-initiated anionic polymerization of styrene by means of self assembled monolayers

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1016-1022

  Jordan, Rainer ^a   Ulman, Abraham ^a   Kang, Jung F ^a   Rafailovich, Miriam H ^b   Sokolov, Jonathan ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STYRENE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033540697     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja981348l     Document Type: Article

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