Null-scattering hybrid particles using controlled radical polymerization

Advanced Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4486-4490

  Bombalski, Lindsay ^a,b   Dong, Hongchen ^a   Listak, Jessica ^b   Matyjaszewski, Krzyszof ^a   Bockstaller, Michael R ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; PERMITTIVITY; POLYSTYRENES;

EMBEDDING MEDIUM; GRAFTING DENSITY; HYBRID PARTICLES;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 37549036652     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200700928     Document Type: Article

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