Poly(benzyl ether) dendrons without conventional gelation motifs as a new kind of effective organogelators

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 4289-4295

  Feng, Yu ^a   Liu, ZhiXiong ^a   Wang, LiYing ^a   Chen, Hui ^a   He, YanMei ^a   Fan, QingHua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

dendron; organogelator; self assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869149424     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5479-2     Document Type: Article

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