Structural and mechanical hysteresis at the order-order transition of block copolymer micellar crystals

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 281-298

  LaFollette, Theresa A ^a   Walker, Lynn M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer; Hysteresis; Order order transition; Pluronic; Rheology; SANS; SAXS

Indexed keywords

CO-POLYMER SYSTEMS; CONCENTRATED SOLUTION; COOLING TRANSITIONS; CYLINDRICAL MICELLES; MACRO SCALE; MECHANICAL HYSTERESIS; NANO SCALE; ORDER-ORDER TRANSITION; ORDER-ORDER TRANSITIONS; PLURONICS; SANS; SAXS; SMALL ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SPHERICAL MICELLES; THERMOREVERSIBLE TRANSITION; WATER-SOLUBLE BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ELASTICITY; HYDROGELS; HYSTERESIS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; RHEOLOGY; SPHERES; VISCOSITY;

MICELLES;

EID: 79851470225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3010281     Document Type: Article

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