Interactions between brush-coated clay sheets in a polymer matrix

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 118, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 9447-9456

  Wang, Rong ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a   Zhang, Hongdong ^a   Yang, Yuliang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; CLAY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAFT COPOLYMERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MONOMERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMERIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BRUSH-COATED CLAY SHEET; CONSTANT MEAN DENSITY; EDWARDS SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; STAR POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 0037941168     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1568339     Document Type: Article

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