Thin film morphology in triblock terpolymers with one and two crystallizable blocks

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5487-5496

  Boschetti de Fierro, Adriana ^a   Spindler, Lea ^b,c   Reiter, Günter ^b   Olmos, Dania ^d   Magonov, Sergei ^e,f   Abetz, Volker ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DES SURFACES ET INTERFACES   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d VEECO INSTRUMENTS INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^f AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZABLE BLOCKS; THIN FILM MORPHOLOGY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; TERPOLYMERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34547690860     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0703812     Document Type: Article

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