Surface segregation in polymer blends driven by surface freezing

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 7467-7470

  Prasad, Shishir ^a   Hanne, Laurie ^a   Dhinojwala, All ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ATTACHMENT; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION (SFG) SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE SEGREGATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

BINARY MIXTURES; FREEZING; PARAFFINS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SURFACE TENSION;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 37849187838     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma061266e     Document Type: Article

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