Gelled polymerizable microemulsions. 1. Phase behavior

Langmuir

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 7730-7737

  Stubenrauch, Cosima ^a   Tessendorf, Renate ^a,b   Strey, Reinhard ^b   Lynch, Iseult ^a   Dawson, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOMERS; PARAFFINS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; POLYMERIZATION;

BICONTINUOUS HIGH SURFACE AREA; BICONTINUOUS STRUCTURE; GELLED POLYMERIZABLE MICROEMULSIONS; ORGANOGELS;

MICROEMULSIONS;

EID: 34547174774     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la700685g     Document Type: Article

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