Ginzburg number of a homopolymer-diblock copolymer mixture covering the 3D-Ising, isotropic Lifshitz, and Brasovskiǐ classes of critical universality

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Pipich, Vitaliy ^a   Schwahn, Dietmar ^a   Willner, Lutz ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION LENGTH; CRITICAL POINTS; GINZBURG NUMBER; THERMAL FLUCTUATION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INTERPOLATION; MIXTURES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYMER BLENDS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

HOMOPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 18044362318     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.117801     Document Type: Article

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