Bulk and thin film ordering in side-chain liquid-crystalline/amorphous diblock copolymers: The role of chain length

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 6401-6407

  Al Hussein, M ^a   De Jen, W H ^a   Vranichar, L ^b   Pispas, S ^b   Hadjichristidis, N ^b   Itoh, T ^c   Watanabe, J ^c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR ORDERS; POLYDISPERSITIES; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORDER DISORDER TRANSITIONS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THIN FILMS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 4444283401     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma049093l     Document Type: Article

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