Formation of H* phase in chiral block copolymers: Morphology evolution as revealed by time-resolved X-ray scattering

Macromolecules

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 474-483

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Wei, Xinyu ^a   Chen, Dian ^a   Grason, Gregory M ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ,3-DIOXOLANE; AMORPHOUS STATE; CRYSTALLINE ORDERING; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; LACTIDES; MICROPHASE SEPARATED; MICROPHASE-SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR PACKINGS; MORPHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; REAL TIME; SELECTIVE SOLVENTS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOLUTION PHASE; SOLVENT REMOVAL; SOLVENT-CASTING; TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY SCATTERING; WIDE-ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BENZENE; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; MORPHOLOGY; POLYSTYRENES; SEPARATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SCATTERING;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84872945817     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma302139m     Document Type: Article

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