Fully collapsed (kippah) vesicles: Preparation and characterization

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 10513-10523

  Azzam, Tony ^a   Eisenberg, Adi ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AMPHIPHILIC COPOLYMERS; DOME STRUCTURE; POLY(ACRYLIC ACID ); RE-SUSPENSION; RELATIVE FLEXIBILITY; TEM; VESICLE FORMATION; WALL THICKNESS;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; LOW TEMPERATURE DRYING; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMER BLENDS; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

CURING;

EID: 77954261778     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la1004837     Document Type: Article

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