Core-shell structures in single flexible-semiflexible block copolymers: Finding the free energy minimum for the folding transition

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Yoshinaga, Natsuhiko ^a   Yoshikawa, Kenichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS;

CORE-SHELL STRUCTURES; FOLDING TRANSITION; TRANSITION PATHWAY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34547593451     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2753838     Document Type: Article

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