Morphology of a highly asymmetric double crystallizable poly (ε -caprolactone- b -ethylene oxide) block copolymer

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Li, Liangbin ^a   Meng, Fenghua ^b   Zhong, Zhiyuan ^b   Byelov, Dmytro ^c   De Jeu, Wim H ^c   Feijen, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ETHYLENE; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYPROPYLENES; RHEOLOGY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLINE LAMELLA; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MOLECULAR MASSES; SYNDIOTACTIC POLYPROPYLENE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

BIOMATERIAL; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLY(EPSILON CAPROLACTONE) POLY(OXYETHYLENE) POLY(EPSILON CAPROLACTONE); POLY(EPSILON-CAPROLACTONE)-POLY(OXYETHYLENE)-POLY(EPSILON-CAPROLACTONE); POLYESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33846230945     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2405357     Document Type: Article

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