Surface reorganization of an amphiphilic block copolymer film studied by NEXAFS spectroscopy

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2592-2595

  Theato, Patrick ^a   Brehmer, Martin ^a   Conrad, Lars ^a   Frank, Curtis W ^b   Funk, Lutz ^a   Yoon, Do Y ^c   Lüning, Jan ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBIC POLYMERS; NEAR-EDGE X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE REORGANIZATION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITION; HYDROPHILICITY; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 33645994495     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0509964     Document Type: Article

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