Telechelic star polymers as self-assembling units from the molecular to the macroscopic scale

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Capone, Barbara ^a   Coluzza, Ivan ^a   Loverso, Federica ^b   Likos, Christos N ^a   Blaak, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; FREE END; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; MICROMETER SCALE; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR SIZE; MONOMERIC UNITS; MULTISCALES; NUMBER OF ARMS; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SIMPLE CUBIC; STAR POLYMERS; TELECHELICS; TUNABLE SYSTEMS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 84870576732     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.238301     Document Type: Article

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