Aggregation phenomena in telechelic star polymer solutions

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

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lo Verso, Federica ^a,d   Panagiotopoulos, Athanassios Z ^b   Likos, Christos N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

AGGREGATION PHENOMENON; END GROUPS; FUNCTIONALIZED; MACRO PHASE SEPARATIONS; MESO STRUCTURES; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; STAR POLYMERS; TELECHELIC;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 59949092820     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.010401     Document Type: Article

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