SCFT study of tiling patterns in ABC star terpolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2981-2989

  Zhang, Guojie ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a   Zhang, Hongdong ^a   Yang, Yuliang ^a   Shi, An Chang ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INTERACTION; JUNCTION POINT; MICROPHASE-SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORDERED PHASE; ORDERED PHASIS; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; STAR TERPOLYMERS; TRIBLOCK TERPOLYMERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

TERPOLYMERS;

EID: 77951904929     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902735t     Document Type: Article

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