Kaleidoscopic tilings, networks and hierarchical structures in blends of 3-miktoarm star terpolymers

Interface Focus

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 602-607

  Kirkensgaard, Jacob Judas Kain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Miktoarm star copolymers; Self assembly; Soft matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865355672     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2011.0093     Document Type: Article

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