Uniquely broad glass transition temperatures of gradient copolymers relative to random and block copolymers containing repulsive comonomers

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6152-6160

  Kim, Jungki ^a   Mok, Michelle M ^a   Sandoval, Robert W ^a   Woo, Dong Jin ^a,b   Torkelson, John M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMONOMERS; GRADIENT COPOLYMERS; NANOHETEROGENEITY; RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GLASS TRANSITION; HYDROLYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLYMERIZATION; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE TENSION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 33748770616     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma061241f     Document Type: Article

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