Liquid-liquid demixing in a binary polymer blend driven solely by the component-selective crystallizability

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 10953-10957

  Hu, Wenbing ^a   Mathot, Vincent B F ^b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b DSM RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MIXING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BINARY POLYMER BLEND; COMPONENT-SELECTIVE CRYSTALLIZABILITY; FLORY-HUGGINS THEORY; LIQUID-LIQUID DEMIXING; POLYMER CHAIN;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0346316842     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1619935     Document Type: Article

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