Supramolecular assembly of end-functionalized polymer mixtures confined in nanospheres

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-122

  Huh, June ^b   Jung, Ji Young ^a   Lee, Jea Uk ^a   Cho, Heesook ^c   Park, Soojin ^c   Park, Cheolmin ^b   Jo, Won Ho ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Confined morphology; End functionalized polymers; Nanoparticles; Phase separation; Supramolecular assembly

Indexed keywords

CONFINED MORPHOLOGY; END-FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS; INTERNAL MORPHOLOGY; MIXING RATIOS; MOLECULAR CLUSTERS; NANO DOMAIN; NANO-SPACE; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; ORDERED STRUCTURES; ORGANIZED STRUCTURE; SELF-ORGANIZED; STOICHIOMETRIC MIXTURES; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO; SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES; SUPRAMOLECULES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALITIES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSPHERES; PHASE SEPARATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 79960011151     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101805z     Document Type: Article

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