Polymer microscopy: Current challenges

Polymer Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 231-234

  Drummy, Lawrence F ^a   Kübel, Christian ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; microscopy; polymer; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECTS; GROWING DEMAND; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPONENTS; POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITE; POLYMER SCIENCE; POLYMERIC MATERIAL; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; RIGID-ROD POLYMERS; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; SYNTHETIC CONTROL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77955873043     PISSN: 15583724     EISSN: 15583716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15583724.2010.493625     Document Type: Article

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