Nonspherical assemblies generated from polystyrene-b-poly(L-lysine) polyelectrolyte block copolymers

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 6582-6589

  Lübbert, Anke ^a   Castelletto, Valeria ^b   Hamley, Ian W ^b   Nuhn, Harald ^c   Scholl, Markus ^c   Bourdillon, Laurent ^c   Wandrey, Christine ^c   Klok, Harm Anton ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICELLES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLUTIONS;

PEPTIDES; POLYMER CHAINS; STRUCTURE FORMATION; SUPERSTRUCTURES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 22444449986     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la0502600     Document Type: Article

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