Amphiphilic graft copolymers in selective solvents: Molecular dynamics simulations and scaling theory

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6748-6760

  Košovan, Peter ^a   Kuldová, Jitka ^a   Limpouchová, Zuzana ^a   Procházka, Karel ^a   Zhulina, Ekaterina B ^b   Borisov, Oleg V ^b,c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC GRAFT COPOLYMERS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; CYLINDRICAL MICELLES; FINITE CHAINS; HYDROPHILIC-HYDROPHOBIC BALANCE; INTRAMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; INTRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MAIN CHAINS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SCALING THEORIES; SELECTIVE SOLVENTS; SIDE CHAINS; SOLVENT QUALITY; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; UNIMOLECULAR;

COPOLYMERIZATION; FRUITS; GEMS; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; GRAFTS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 69549109917     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma900768p     Document Type: Article

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