Bending rigidity and induced persistence length of molecular bottle brushes: A self-consistent-field theory

Macromolecules

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8891-8901

  Feuz, Laurent ^a   Leermakers, Frans A M ^b   Textor, Marcus ^a   Borisov, Oleg ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COPOLYMERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MACROMOLECULES; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERIZATION; RIGIDITY;

CHAIN LENGTHS; GRAFTING DENSITIES; LYOTROPIC ORDERING;

BRUSHES;

EID: 27344457300     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma050871z     Document Type: Article

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