Precise hierarchical self-assembly of multicompartment micelles

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gröschel, André H ^a   Schacher, Felix H ^b   Schmalz, Holger ^a   Borisov, Oleg V ^c,d   Zhulina, Ekaterina B ^d   Walther, Andreas ^e   Müller, Axel H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; ACETAMIDE DERIVATIVE; N,N DIMETHYLACETAMIDE; NANOSPHERE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICELLE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTICOMPARTMENT MICELLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY;

ACETAMIDES; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MICELLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS;

EID: 84857733500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1707     Document Type: Article

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