Conformational transitions of spherical polymer brushes: Synthesis, characterization, and theory

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1564-1570

  Dukes, Douglas ^a   Li, Yu ^b,d   Lewis, Sarah ^a   Benicewicz, Brian ^b,d   Schadler, Linda ^a   Kumar, Sanat K ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c University of South Carolina ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN SEGMENTS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS; FINITE CURVATURE; GRAFT DENSITY; GRAFTED POLYMERS; GRAFTING DENSITIES; POLYMER BRUSHES; POLYMER LAYERS; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SEMIDILUTE; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SPHERICAL POLYMERS;

BREAKWATERS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MEAN FIELD THEORY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BRUSHES;

EID: 76149100598     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901228t     Document Type: Article

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