Water-soluble stimuli responsive star-shaped segmented macromolecules

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1911-1933

  Iatridi, Zacharoula ^a   Tsitsilianis, Constantinos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Self assembly; Star shaped segmented macromolecules; Stimuli responsive

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIA; MACROMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; NANO-STRUCTURED; NUMBER OF ARMS; STAR POLYMERS; STAR-SHAPED BLOCK COPOLYMERS; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; IONIC STRENGTH; MACROMOLECULES; SELF ASSEMBLY; TOPOLOGY;

STARS;

EID: 84859771547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3041911     Document Type: Review

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