Predicting the morphologies of confined copolymer/nanoparticle mixtures

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7730-7739

  Lee, Jae Youn ^a   Shou, Zhenyu ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER FILM; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILM; SELF-ASSEMBLY; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY;

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACES; THIN FILMS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0142059342     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034765d     Document Type: Article

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