A general method for calculating bending moduli and spontaneous curvature of polymer brushes in terms of local density functional theory

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 5032-5038

  Stoyanov, Simeon D ^a   Paunov, Vesselin N ^b   Kuhn, Hubert ^a   Rehage, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; MONOLAYERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

POLYMER BRUSHES;

MICROEMULSIONS;

EID: 0037781756     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma025854d     Document Type: Article

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