The glass-to-glass transition and its end point in a copolymer micellar system

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5619, 2003, Pages 619-622

  Chen, Sow Hsin ^a   Chen, Wei Ren ^a   Mallamace, Francesco ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; CORRELATION METHODS; GLASS TRANSITION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHOTONS; VOLUME FRACTION;

MODE-COUPLING THEORY;

MICELLES;

COPOLYMER; GLASS;

GLASS; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICELLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0037466555     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1082364     Document Type: Article

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