Chain trapping in diblock copolymers near the ordering transition

Europhysics Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-74

  Anastasiadis, S H ^a,b   Rittig, F ^c   Chrissopoulou, K ^a   Fleischer, G ^c   Fytas, G ^a   Semenov, A N ^a,d   Karger J ^c   Xenidou, M ^e   Pispas, S ^e   Hadjichristidis, N ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 0034215949     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00338-1     Document Type: Article

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38. Since it is not possible to macroscopically orient even the domains in the present solutions, one cannot distinguish between D⊥ and D∥.