Effect of diblock copolymers on the film structure of spin cast polymer blends

Journal of Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-33

  Raczkowska, J ^a   Budkowski, A ^a   Rysz, J ^a   Czuba, P ^a   Lekka, M ^b   Bernasik, A ^c  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; BICONTINUOUS; BINARY COMPOSITION; DE-WETTING; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCKS; FILM STRUCTURE; LATERAL FORCE MICROSCOPY; LENGTH SCALE; PHASE ARRANGEMENT; SELECTIVE DISSOLUTION; SPIN CAST; SPIN-CAST POLYMER; SURFACE UNDULATION; TOLUENE SOLUTION; WEIGHT FRACTIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DISSOLUTION; EMULSIFICATION; ESTERS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PHENOMENA; TOLUENE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 33947670173     PISSN: 17904439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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