Imaging polymer systems with high-angle annular dark field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM)

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2581-2586

  Loos, Joachim ^a   Sourty, Erwan ^a,b   Lu, Kangbo ^a   De With, Gijsbertus ^a   Bavel, Svetlana V ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON-BASED; CONVENTIONAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; HAADF STEM IMAGING; HAADF-STEM; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; IMAGING ARTIFACTS; INCOHERENT IMAGING; NANO-SCALE ORGANIZATION; PHASE CONTRASTS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; POLYMER MATERIALS; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; POLYMER SYSTEMS; RUBBER BLENDS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICRYSTALLINE; SIGNAL INTENSITIES;

CARBON BLACK; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FADING (RADIO); FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 66649117180     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma8026589     Document Type: Article

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