Nucleation of ordered phases in block copolymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Cheng, Xiuyuan ^a   Lin, Ling ^a   Weinan, Weinan ^a,b   Zhang, Pingwen ^a   Shi, An Chang ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL NUCLEI; FREE-ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LAYERED STRUCTURES; METASTABLE PHASE; MINIMUM ENERGY PATHS; ORDERED PHASE; ORDERED PHASIS; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; STRING METHODS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; TRANSITION PATHWAY; TWO-ORDERED PHASIS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; METASTABLE PHASES; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NUCLEATION;

FREE ENERGY;

EID: 77950671656     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.148301     Document Type: Article

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