Structural properties of weakly segregated PS-PB block copolymer micelles in n-alkanes: Solvent entropy effects

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2686-2695

  Lund, Reidar ^a,c   Willner, Lutz ^a   Lindner, Peter ^b   Richter, Dieter ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AGGREGATION NUMBERS; BLOCK COPOLYMER MICELLES; CONTRAST VARIATION; ENTHALPIC INTERACTIONS; ENTROPY EFFECTS; FLORY-HUGGINS INTERACTION PARAMETER; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; MICELLAR STRUCTURES; MODIFIED MEAN FIELDS; N-ALKANES; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SOLVENT FRACTION; SOLVENT MOLECULES; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTADIENE; COPOLYMERIZATION; DEUTERIUM; ENTROPY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MICELLES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PARAFFINS; POLYSTYRENES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 66649087734     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma8021629     Document Type: Article

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