Nanostructured morphology of a random P(DLLA-co-CL) copolymer

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Peponi, Laura ^a   Marcos Fernández, Angel ^a   Kenny, José María ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE POLÍMEROS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Nanostructutation; Poly( caprolactone); Polylactic acid; Random copolymer

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMATERIALS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LACTIC ACID; NANOCOMPOSITES;

CAPROLACTONE; DISORDERED STRUCTURES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTUTATION; POLY (EPSILONCAPROLACTONE); POLY LACTIC ACID; RANDOM COPOLYMER;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84857726803     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-103     Document Type: Article

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