Microfabrication of high-performance aromatic polymers as nanotubes or fibrils by in situ ring-opening polymerisation of macrocyclic precursors

Journal of Materials Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1504-1506

  Colquhoun, Howard M ^a   Zolotukhin, Mikhail G ^a   Sestiaa, Lionel G ^a   Aricó, Fabio ^a   Zhu, Zhixue ^a   Hodge, Philip ^b   Ben Haida, Abderrazak ^b   Williams, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHERS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POROSITY; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION;

MACROCYCLIC PRECURSORS;

AROMATIC POLYMERS;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; SULFIDE;

AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; DISSOLUTION; FIBER; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MATERIALS; MELTING POINT; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MICROFABRICATION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PROCESS MONITORING; RING OPENING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038302372     PISSN: 09599428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b303948j     Document Type: Article

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