Phase behavior of styrene-isoprene diblock derivatives with varying conformational asymmetry

Macromolecules

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3461-3466

  Lai, Chiajen ^a,d   Russel, William B ^a   Register, Richard A ^a   Marchand, Gary R ^b,e   Adamson, Douglas H ^c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b Dow Chemical Company   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^e DuPont Dow Elastomers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYISOPRENES; POLYSTYRENES; VOLUME FRACTION;

CONFORMATIONAL ASYMMETRY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0033742189     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma991156q     Document Type: Article

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