Theory and simulation of the self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymer melts: Recent progress

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3711-3716

  Wang, Qiang ^a  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FLEXIBLE BLOCKS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NEW PHYSICS; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; ORIENTATIONAL INTERACTIONS; RECENT PROGRESS; RESEARCH NEEDS; ROD-COIL; ROD-COIL BLOCK COPOLYMER; SIMULATION STUDIES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 79953734699     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm01216e     Document Type: Review

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