(Electro)mechanical behavior of selectively solvated diblock/triblock copolymer blends

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Vargantwar, Pruthesh H ^a,c   Brelander, Sarah M ^a   Krishnan, Arjun S ^a,d   Ghosh, Tushar K ^b   Spontak, Richard J ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER BLENDS; COPOLYMER CONCENTRATION; CROSSLINKED; DIBLOCKS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROMECHANICAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMECHANICAL PROPERTY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSICAL NETWORK; SOFTER MATERIALS; TRIBLOCKS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 83755195945     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3666783     Document Type: Article

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