Monitoring the dynamics of phase separation in a polymer blend by confocal imaging and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1568-1573

  Doroshenko, Mikheil ^a   Gonzales, Maria ^a   Best, Andreas ^a   Butt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Koynov, Kaloian ^a   Floudas, George ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; phase separation; polymer blends; purity of phases

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; IN-SITU; INTERFACIAL WIDTH; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MACROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC; PURITY OF PHASES;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYSTYRENES;

POLYMER BLENDS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84866412663     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201200322     Document Type: Article

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