Syntheses of stereoregular amorphous - Crystalline diblock copolymers and their self-assembly studies

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7520-7526

  Tsai, Jing Cherng ^a   Kuo, Jing Chung ^a   Ho, Rong Ming ^b   Chung, Tsai Ming ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANOPATTERNS; STEREOREGULAR AMORPHOUS COPOLYMERS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 34547890014     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma052396a     Document Type: Article

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