Block copolymers in tomorrow's plastics

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-31

  Ruzette, Anne Valérie ^a   Leibler, Ludwik ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CHARCOAL; CROSSLINKING; ENTROPY; MIXTURES; MONOMERS; POLYMER BLENDS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

HETEROGENEOUS PLASTICS; NANOSTRUCTURED PLASTICS; POLYMER LIQUIDS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS;

MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS;

EID: 11144276017     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1295     Document Type: Review

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