Triggering mesophase order in melts of metastable, ultrathin diblock copolymer films through microstretching: Effect of melt film thickness

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9332-9337

  Moreno Flores, Susana ^a,c   Nehring, Rainer ^a   Raiteri, Roberto ^b   Meier, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CIC BIOMAGUNE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM PROBE; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER FILMS; DISORDERED STATE; LOADING-UNLOADING CYCLES; MELT FILM THICKNESS; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MESOPHASES; MULTILAMELLAR; NANOPATCHES; NANOSCALE SIZE; NUMBER OF LAYERS; ORDER-DISORDER TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; ULTRA-THIN; UNLOADING RATES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTADIENE; COPOLYMERIZATION; ETHYLENE; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; MAGNETIC FILMS; MELTING POINT; OXIDE FILMS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; PROBES; UNLOADING;

ULTRATHIN FILMS;

EID: 71949116670     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9015505     Document Type: Article

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