Morphological changes in block copolymer melts due to a variation of intramolecular branching. Dissipative particles dynamics study

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9904-9913

  Ilnytskyi, Jaroslav M ^a   Patsahan, Taras ^a   Holovko, Myroslav ^a   Krouskop, Peter E ^b   Makowski, Mike P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b PPG INDUSTRIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER MELTS; BRANCHED MOLECULES; BRANCHING EFFECTS; DIBLOCK; DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; DIBLOCK POLYMERS; EQUILIBRIUM MORPHOLOGIES; GYROID PHASE; LAMELLAR PHASE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; NO PHASE; ORDERED PHASE; PHASE CHANGES; SPACE REGIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DYNAMICS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYMERS;

CONFORMATIONS;

EID: 61849145262     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801045z     Document Type: Article

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