Confinement of symmetric diblock copolymer thin films

Macromolecules

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1370-1384

  Tang, Wilfred H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Newark Memorial High School (Student)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; FREE ENERGY; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PHASE SEPARATION; SURFACES; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; WETTING;

FILM THICKNESS; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; SCHEUTJENS-FLEER METHOD; SYMMETRIC DIBLOCK COPOLYMER;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0033905325     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990970a     Document Type: Article

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