Rheology and structures of aqueous gels of diblock(oxyethylene- oxybutylene) copolymers with lengthy oxyethylene blocks

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2755-2763

  Kelarakis, Antonis ^a   Mingvanish, Withawat ^b   Daniel, Christophe ^c   Li, Hong ^b   Havredaki, Vasiliki ^a   Booth, Colin ^b   Hamley, Ian W ^c   Ryan, Anthony J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FLOW KINETICS; GEL; NONHUMAN; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034659416     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b001557l     Document Type: Article

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