Influence of molecular weight on self-organization, uniaxial alignment, and surface morphology of hairy-rodlike polyfluorene in thin films

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 108, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 10711-10720

  Knaapila, Matti ^a   Kisko, Kaisa ^b   Lyons, Benjamin P ^a   Stepanyan, Roman ^c   Foreman, Joel P ^a   Seeck, Oliver H ^d   Vainio, Ulla ^b   Pålsson, Lars Olof ^a   Serimaa, Ritva ^b   Torkkeli, Mika ^b   Monkman, Andrew P ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYFLUORENE; RUBBING; UNIAXIAL ALIGNMENT; X-RAY REFLECTIVITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; REFLECTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 4043066397     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp049067p     Document Type: Article

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