Wetting of a polymer brush, a system with pronounced critical wetting

Langmuir

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 7082-7087

  Leermakers, F A M ^c   Mercurieva, A A ^b   Van Male, J ^a   Zhulina, E B ^b   Besseling, N A M ^a   Birshtein, T M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; FILM GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASTIC FILMS; SOLIDS; SOLVENTS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WETTING;

CRITICAL WETTING; FILM THICKNESS; NUMERICAL SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; POLYMER BRUSH; SECOND VIRIAL COEFFICIENT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0034251441     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la991354a     Document Type: Article

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