Triply periodic level surfaces as models for cubic tricontinuous block copolymer morphologies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1715, 1996, Pages 2009-2023

  Lambert, Charla A ^a   Radzilowski, Leonard H ^a   Thomas, Edwin L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

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EID: 3042891541     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0089     Document Type: Article

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