Pearl-necklace structures in core-shell molecular brushes: Experiments, Monte Carlo simulations, and self-consistent field modeling

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4020-4028

  Polotsky, Alexey ^a,c   Charlaganov, Marat ^b,c   Xu, Youyong ^d   Leermakers, Frans A M ^b   Daoud, Mohamed ^a   Müller, Axel H E ^d   Dotera, Tomonori ^e   Borisov, Oleg ^c,f  

^a DIF   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Institut Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Environnement et les Materiaux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLICS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; FLUIDS; MOLECULES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLVENTS;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; CORE SHELLS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; LONGITUDINAL INSTABILITY; MOLECULAR BRUSHES; MONTE CARLO (MC); MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); MULTIVALENT IONS; POLY ACRYLIC ACID (PAAC); POLY(N BUTYL ACRYLATE); POLYMER BRUSHES; POOR SOLVENTS; SELECTIVE SOLVENTS; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD (SCF); SOLVENT STRENGTH; SOLVOPHOBIC; UNIFORM STRUCTURE;

BRUSHES;

EID: 45849110345     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma800125q     Document Type: Article

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