Alternating crystalline-amorphous layers in hybrid block copolymers of linear poly(ethylene glycol) and dendritic poly(benzyl ether)

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 205, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1410-1417

  Duan, Xuexin ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Wen, Xiaojing ^a   Yang, Miao ^a   He, Binglin ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystalline morphology; Crystalline amorphous layers; Dendrimers; Hybrid block copolymers; Poly(benzyl ether); Poly(ethylene glycol)

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SOLUBILITY; SUPERCOOLING; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLINE-AMORPHOUS LAYERS; MONODENDRONS; SPHERULITES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYBRID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 4544263537     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200400055     Document Type: Article

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