Well ordered polymer melts from blends of disordered triblock copolymer surfactants and functional homopolymers

Advanced Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1603-1608

  Tirumala, Vijay R ^a,b   Romang, Alvin ^a   Agarwal, Sumit ^a   Lin, Eric K ^b   Watkins, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BLENDING; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION; CATIONIC SURFACTANTS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GLYCOLS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDS; MONOMERS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYMER MELTS; PROPYLENE; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COPOLYMER SURFACTANTS; DIFUNCTIONAL; EFFECTIVE INTERACTION PARAMETERS; HOMOPOLYMERS; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; HYDROPHILIC SEGMENTS; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTIONS; MONOFUNCTIONAL; ORDERED POLYMERS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SEGREGATION STRENGTHS; TRIBLOCK CO-POLYMER;

POLYMERS;

EID: 54949130930     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200701577     Document Type: Article

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