Dynamic arm exchange facilitates crystallization and jamming of starlike polymers by spontaneous fine-tuning of the number of arms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Puaud, Fanny ^a   Nicolai, Taco ^a   Nicol, Erwan ^a   Benyahia, Lazhar ^a   Brotons, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSE SUSPENSION; HYDROPHOBIC CHAINS; LIQUID-SOLID TRANSITION; NUMBER OF ARMS; OPTIMUM VALUE; PHOTOCROSS-LINKING; RAPID CRYSTALLIZATION; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SPHERICAL MICELLES;

JAMMING; LIQUIDS; MICELLES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

POLYMERS;

EID: 84872231631     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.028302     Document Type: Article

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