Adsorption of star polymers studied by a new numerical mean field theory

Polymer

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3601-3609

  Kritikos, Georgios ^a   Terzis, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Polymer brush; Self consistent mean field method; Star polymers

Indexed keywords

MEAN FIELD THEORY;

ADSORBED POLYMERS; ADSORPTION PROFILE; NUMBER OF BRANCHES; POLYMER BRUSHES; SELF-CONSISTENT MEAN FIELD METHOD; SELF-CONSISTENT MEAN-FIELD THEORIES; STAR POLYMERS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

POLYMERS;

ADSORPTION; ORGANIC POLYMER; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 47149086767     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.05.042     Document Type: Article

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