Monte Carlo study of the stabilization of complex bicontinuous phases in diblock copolymer systems

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7354-7365

  Martínez Veracoechea, Francisco J ^a   Escobedo, Fernando A ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICONTINUOUS PHASES; CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER SYSTEMS; EXPLICIT SELECTIVE-SOLVENT PARTICLES; METASTABLE ORTHORHOMBIC COCONTINUOUS PHASE]; PACKING FRUSTRATION; PLUMBER'S NIGHTMARE; REVERSED GYROID;

CONFORMATIONS; ENTROPY; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; METASTABLE PHASES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STABILIZATION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 35348861808     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma071449g     Document Type: Article

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