Shear alignment and realignment of sphere-forming and cylinder-forming block-copolymer thin films

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Marencic, Andrew P ^a   Adamson, Douglas H ^b   Chaikin, Paul M ^c   Register, Richard A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; LATTICE ORDERS; MICRO-DOMAINS; MICRODOMAIN; MISORIENTATION ANGLE; MONODOMAINS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; SHEAR ALIGNMENT; SHEAR DIRECTION; SINGLE LAYER; STRUCTURED FLUIDS; TWO LAYERS; VARIABLE STRESS;

ALIGNMENT; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); SPHERES; THIN FILMS;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

EID: 76149145019     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011503     Document Type: Article

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