Micelles of Coil-Comb Block Copolymers in Selective Solvents: Competition of Length Scales

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2037-2041

  Wang, Jiafang ^a,b   Guo, Kunkun ^c   An, Lijia ^a   Müller, Marcus ^b   Wang, Zhen Gang ^a,d  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; DIFFERENT SIZES; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTIONS; LENGTH SCALE; MICELLAR ASSEMBLIES; MICELLAR SOLUTION; SELECTIVE SOLVENTS; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPETITION; COPOLYMERIZATION;

MICELLES;

EID: 77249128390     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901977h     Document Type: Article

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