Remarkable `flip-flop' self-assembly of a diblock copolymer in aqueous solution

Macromolecules

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1503-1511

  Bütün, Vural ^a   Armes, Steven P ^b   Billingham, Norman C ^b   Tuzar, Zdenek ^c   Rankin, A ^c   Eastoe, J ^d   Heenan, R K ^e  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; MICELLES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLUTIONS;

CORE MICELLES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0037878712     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0018392     Document Type: Article

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