Communication: Self-assembly of semiflexible-flexible block copolymers

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kumar, N Arun ^a   Ganesan, Venkat ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; ROD-COIL COPOLYMERS; SELF-ASSEMBLY BEHAVIORS; SELF-CONSISTENT BROWNIAN DYNAMICS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858959052     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3692601     Document Type: Article

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