3D nanometer-scale study of coexisting bicontinuous morphologies in a block copolymer/homopolymer blend

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1424-1429

  Jinnai, Hiroshi ^a   Hasegawa, Hirokazu ^b   Nishikawa, Yukihiro ^a   Agur Sevink, G J ^c   Braunfeld, Michael B ^d   Agard, David A ^d   Spontak, Richard J ^e  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicontinuous networks; Block copolymers; Phase separation; Simulations; TEM

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYSTYRENES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BICONTINUOUS NETWORKS; CHANNEL COORDINATION; MOLECULAR-FIELD SIMULATIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROTOMOGRAPHY (TEMT);

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 33748942621     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200600344     Document Type: Article

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