The effect of solvent size on physical gelation in triblock copolymer solutions

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Li, Yunqi ^a   Sun, Zhaoyan ^a   Su, Zhaohui ^a   Shi, Tongfei ^a   An, Lijia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERIC GELS; SUBGLASS TRANSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GELATION; GELS; GLASS TRANSITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOL-GELS; SOLVENTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 21444436167     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1900043     Document Type: Article

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