Kinetics of phase transition from lamellar to hexagonally packed cylinders for a triblock copolymer in a selective solvent

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 9482-9490

  Liu, Yongsheng ^a   Li, Minghai ^a   Bansil, Rama ^a   Steinhart, Milos ^b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIBUTYL PHTHALATE (DBP); LAMELLAR (LAM);

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NUCLEATION; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; QUENCHING; X RAY SCATTERING;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 38349122134     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma071192m     Document Type: Article

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