Mixed homopolymer brushes grafted onto a nanosphere

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Yueqiang ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   Tang, Ping ^a   Qiu, Feng ^a   Yang, Yuliang ^a   Zhu, Lei ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN PROPAGATORS; COMPUTATIONAL CELL; CUBIC CELLS; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FINITE ELEMENT GRID; GRAFTING DENSITIES; HIGH-ORDER; HOMOPOLYMERS; ISLAND STRUCTURE; MASKING TECHNIQUE; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PLANAR SUBSTRATE; POLYMER BRUSHES; PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHODS; REGULAR LATTICE; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; SPHERICAL BOUNDARY; SPHERICAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE SYMMETRY; SUBSTRATE CURVATURE;

BRUSHES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; NANOSPHERES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POLYMERS;

SPHERES;

EID: 79954566580     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3575180     Document Type: Article

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