Computer simulation of morphologies and optical properties of filled diblock copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 9631-9637

  Buxton, Gavin A ^a   Lee, Jae Youn ^a   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FILLED DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP MATERIALS; POLYMER-PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY;

BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY GAP; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MIXTURES; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PERMITTIVITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0346392885     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034322+     Document Type: Article

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