Swelling and smoothing of polyelectrolyte multilayers by salt

Langmuir

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 7725-7727

  Dubas, Stephan T ^a   Schlenoff, Joseph B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYERS;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MULTILAYERS; SALTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SWELLING;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0035846784     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la0112099     Document Type: Article

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