Critical micelle concentration of micelles with different geometries in diblock copolymer/homopolymer blends

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 690-699

  Zhou, Jiajia ^a,b   Shi, An Chang ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

blends; critical micelle concentration; micelles; self consistent field theory; shape transition

Indexed keywords

BLENDS; CORE RADIUS; CORONA THICKNESS; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION (CMC); DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER/HOMOPOLYMER BLEND; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; GRAND CANONICAL ENSEMBLE; MICELLE MORPHOLOGY; MICELLE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR PARAMETERS; MONOMER-MONOMER INTERACTIONS; SELECTIVE SOLVENTS; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; SHAPE TRANSITIONS; STABLE MICELLES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY;

MICELLES;

EID: 80052804170     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: 15213919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.201100042     Document Type: Article

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