Chirality in block copolymer melts: Mesoscopic helicity from intersegment twist

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^a   Grason, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER MELTS; CHIRAL PHASIS; CRITICAL VALUE; DIBLOCKS; HELICITIES; LAMELLAR PHASE; MESOPHASES; MESOSCALE; MESOSCOPICS; RANDOM COIL; SECOND ORDERS; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; THERMODYNAMIC COUPLING;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHIRALITY; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ENANTIOMERS;

EID: 84873188652     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.058301     Document Type: Article

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