Kinetic pathway of gyroid-to-cylinder transition in diblock copolymer melt under an electric field

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2928-2935

  Ly, Dung Q ^a   Honda, Takashi ^b   Kawakatsu, Toshihiro ^c   Zvelindovsky, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL RELAXATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MELTING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SHEAR FLOW;

GYROID STRUCTURES; GYROID-TO-CYLINDER TRANSITION; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34247633491     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma061875m     Document Type: Article

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