The nature of phase transitions of symmetric diblock copolymer melts under confinement

Polymer

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4278-4287

  Miao, Bing ^a   Yan, Dadong ^a   Wickham, Robert A ^b   Shi, An Chang ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confinement; Diblock copolymer; Phase transition

Indexed keywords

ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; POLYMER MELTS;

CONFINEMENTS; GAUSSIAN FLUCTUATION THEORY; POLYMER CHAINS; SELF-CONSISTENT MEAN-FIELD THEORY; SURFACE FIELDS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

BLOCK COPOLYMER; POLYMER MELT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 34250738803     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.05.045     Document Type: Article

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