Molecular structure of polystyrene at air/polymer and solid/polymer interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 3854-3857

  Gautam, K S ^a   Schwab, A D ^a   Dhinojwala, A ^a   Zhang, D ^b   Dougal, S M ^b   Yeganeh, M S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREQUENCIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; SOLIDS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION SPECTROSCOPY; SUM FREQUENCY VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION GEOMETRY; TUNABLE INFRARED WAVELENGTH SOURCE;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 0034296625     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3854     Document Type: Article

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