Spontaneous and inductive thickenings of lamellar crystal monolayers of low molecular weight PEO fractions on surface of solid substrates

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1717-1722

  Zhai, Xue Mei ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Ma, Zhen Peng ^a   Wen, Xiao Jing ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Tang, Xiong Feng ^a   He, Bing Lin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDENSATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EVAPORATION; MELTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES;

COARSENING PROCESS; INDUCTIVE THICKENING; LAMELLAR CRYSTAL MONOLAYERS; SUPERSATURATED PHASE;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 15244349610     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma047764+     Document Type: Article

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52. As presented in Figure 7D, we observed the lamellar crystals showing 0.5 fold. This point will be explained in a further study.