Wetting transition in a binary polymer blend

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-40

  Rysz, J ^a   Budkowski, A ^a   Bernasik, A ^b   Klein, J ^c   Kowalski, K ^b   Jedlinski J ^b   Fetters, L J ^d  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 0034164121     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00231-y     Document Type: Article

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40. 1 was also detected [11].