Self-assembly of lamellar- and cylinder-forming diblock copolymers in planar slits: Insight from dissipative particle dynamics simulations

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 14680-14693

  Petrus, Pavel ^a   Lísal, Martin ^a,b   Brennan, John K ^c  

^a J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC SYSTEM; CYLINDRICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER SYSTEMS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS SIMULATION; DOMAIN MORPHOLOGY; END-TO-END DISTANCES; FREE-ENERGY CALCULATIONS; LAMELLAR DOMAIN; LAMELLAR PHASE; LAMELLAR PHASIS; MEAN SQUARE; NANOSTRUCTURE FORMATION; NEMATIC ORDER; NON-CYLINDRICAL; PLANAR SLIT; PLANAR SURFACE; SLIT WIDTH; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE INTERACTIONS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); FREE ENERGY; LAMELLAR STRUCTURES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

PLASTIC PRODUCTS;

EID: 77956580652     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la102666g     Document Type: Article

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