Increasing the order parameter of quasi-hexagonal micellar nanostructures by ultrasound annealing

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 989-993

  Williges, Christian ^a   Chen, Wenwen ^b,c   Morhard, Christoph ^b   Spatz, Joachim P ^b,c,d   Brunner, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES; HEXAGONAL ORDER; NANO PATTERN; NANOPATTERNING; ORDER PARAMETER; ULTRA-SONICATION;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE BLOCK POLY(2 VINYLPYRIDINE); POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYSTYRENE-BLOCK-POLY(2-VINYLPYRIDINE); POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MICELLE; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASOUND;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYLS; PYRIDINES; SONICATION; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84873119210     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la303991x     Document Type: Article

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