Wettability of end-grafted polymer brush by chemically identical polymer films

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 8148-8151

  Zhang, Xueyun ^a   Lee, Fuk Kay ^b   Tsui, Ophelia K C ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THEORIES; ATOMIC FORCES; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS; CONSTITUENT POLYMERS; DEWETTING TRANSITIONS; EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURES; GRAFTED POLYMERS; GRAFTING DENSITIES; HOMOGENEOUS POLYMERS; LARGE DEVIATIONS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENTS; RESIDUAL FILMS; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELDS; X-RAY REFLECTIVITIES;

ABS RESINS; BRUSHES; CONTACT ANGLE; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MOLECULAR ORBITALS; POLYMER MELTS; POLYMERS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 56549122190     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801549r     Document Type: Article

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