Do "nonequilibrium" effects control strong surface segregation from polymer blends?

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-12

  Indrakanti, Ananth ^a   Jones, Ronald L ^b   Kumar, Sanat K ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTIC FILMS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

FILM THICKNESS; SURFACE SEGREGATION;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 1642578136     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma035010+     Document Type: Article

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