Access to the superstrong segregation regime with nonionic ABC copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 6680-6682

  Lodge, Timothy P ^a,b   Hillmyer, Marc A ^a   Zhou, Zhilian ^b   Talmon, Yeshayahu ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOIDS; FLUORINATION; SELF CONSISTENT MEAN-FIELD THEORY (SCMFT); SUPERSTRONG SEGREGATIONS;

FREE ENERGY; MICELLES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; POLYMERIZATION; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE TENSION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 4544301434     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma048708b     Document Type: Article

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10. The stretching of the core blocks is relatively insignificant when the corona blocks are longer, as is the case here; inclusion of stretching terms would modify our numerical estimates slightly but not affect the conclusions.