Highly symmetric patchy multicompartment nanoparticles from the self-assembly of ABC linear terpolymers in C-selective solvents

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 11714-11724

  Kong, Weixin ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Zhu, Yutian ^a   Li, Baohui ^b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; ABC TERPOLYMERS; ANCHORING EFFECTS; ANGLE DISTRIBUTION; BUILDING BLOCKES; COPOLYMER CONCENTRATION; END-TO-END DISTANCES; HIGH SYMMETRY; JANUS MICELLES; MEAN SQUARE; MICELLAR STRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; MULTICOMPARTMENT MICELLES; SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD; SOLVOPHOBIC; STRETCHING ENERGY; SYMMETRIC SURFACES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TERPOLYMERS;

MICELLES;

EID: 84865190556     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3014943     Document Type: Article

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