Generation of multiblock copolymers by PCR: Synthesis, visualization and nanomechanical properties

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3658-3662

  Alemdaroglu, Fikri E ^a,c   Zhuang, Wei ^b   Zöphel, Lukas ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Berger, Rüdiger ^a   Rabe, Jürgen P ^b   Herrmann, Andreas ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Elastogran GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER SYNTHESIS; CIRCULAR TOPOLOGY; CONTOUR LENGTHS; DENDRONIZED POLYMERS; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; DNA POLYMERS; MULTI-BLOCK STRUCTURES; MULTIBLOCK COPOLYMER; NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTY; ORGANIC POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER CHEMISTRY; POLYMER HYBRID; SALIENT FEATURES; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE POLYMER CHAINS; TRIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DENDRIMERS; DNA; GENES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DNA; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; MECHANICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DNA; MECHANICS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERS;

EID: 72849145285     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901899t     Document Type: Article

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