Effect of particle size on the phase behavior of block copolymer/nanoparticle composites

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 368, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 6-12

  Lo, Chieh Tsung ^a   Chang, Yu Cheng ^a   Wu, Shih Chi ^b   Lee, Chien Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assembly; Block copolymer; Nanocomposites; Organization

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PALLADIUM; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; STYRENE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

2-VINYL PYRIDINE; CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; DOMAIN SPACING; INTERFACIAL CURVATURE; MACRO PHASE SEPARATION; MICRO-PHASE; NANOSTRUCTURED POLYMERS; ORDER-ORDER TRANSITIONS; ORGANIZATION; PACKING CONSTRAINTS; PARTICLE AGGREGATES; PARTICLE AGGREGATION; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE DISPERSION; PARTICLE LOADING; PD NANO PARTICLE; POLYMER MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER STRETCHING; SIMULATION STUDIES;

AGGLOMERATION;

COPOLYMER; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; PALLADIUM; POLYSTYRENE; STYRENE VINYLPYRIDINE COPOLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTROPY; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77956264030     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.06.027     Document Type: Article

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