Influence of macromolecular architecture on the crystallization of (PCL2)-b-(PS2) 4-Miktoarm star block copolymers in comparison to linear PCL-b-PS diblock copolymer analogues

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8353-8364

  Lorenzos, A T ^a   Muller A J ^a   Lin, Ming Champ ^b   Chen, Hsin Lung ^b   Jeng, U Ser ^c   Priftis, D ^d   Pitsikalis, M ^d   Hadjichristidis, N ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPROLACTONE; CHAIN STRETCHING; CONFINEMENT DEGREE; COVALENTLY BONDED; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; ISOTHERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION; LINEAR BLOCK COPOLYMERS; LINEAR COPOLYMERS; MACROMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; MATRIX; MIKTOARM STAR COPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; NANO DOMAIN; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PS CONTENTS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STAR BLOCK COPOLYMER; TEM;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLIZATION KINETICS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FREE RADICAL REACTIONS; MACROMOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYDISPERSITY; POLYSTYRENES; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 70449380730     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901289t     Document Type: Article

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