Atomic force microscopic study of stretching a single polymer chain in a polymer brush

Macromolecules

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 5995-5998

  Yamamoto, Shinpei ^a   Tsujii, Yoshinobu ^a   Fukuda, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CURVE FITTING; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SILICON; TOLUENE; VINYL RESINS;

POLYDISPERSITY; POLYMER BRUSH; POLYMER CHAIN; POLYVINYLPYRIDINE; SURFACE INITIATED ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; WORMLIKE CHAIN MODEL;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0034250769     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma000225u     Document Type: Article

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