Lamellar structures of symmetric diblock copolymers: Comparisons between lattice Monte Carlo simulations and self-consistent mean-field calculations

Macromolecules

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 2002, Pages 9563-9573

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Nealey, Paul F ^a   De Pablo, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORY HUGGINS PARAMETER; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; SELF CONSISTENT MEAN FIELD THEORY; SYMMETRIC DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOLUTIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0037016123     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0203905     Document Type: Article

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