Diverging curvature correction to the interfacial tension in polymer solutions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Anisimov, Mikhail A ^a   St Pierre, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MONOMERS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; SEPARATION;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); CRITICAL POINT (CP); CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; CURVATURE CORRECTION; DEGREE OF POLYMERIZATION (DOP); INTERFACIAL TENSION (IFT);

POLYMERS;

EID: 47249112108     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011105     Document Type: Article

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