Fluctuation Effects in Ternary AB + A + B Polymeric Emulsions

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 9237-9248

  Düchs, Dominik ^a   Ganesan, Venkat ^b   Fredrickson, Glenn H ^c   Schmid, Friederike ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOPOLYMERS; MICRODOMAINS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; TERNARY SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLUME FRACTION;

MICROEMULSIONS;

EID: 0345547741     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma030201y     Document Type: Article

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