Morphologies of ABC triblock terpolymer melts containing poly(Cyclohexadiene): Effects of conformational asymmetry

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1995-2006

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Sides, Scott W ^b   Goswami, Monojoy ^a   Sumpter, Bobby G ^a   Hong, Kunlun ^a   Wu, Xiaodong ^c   Russell, Thomas P ^c   Gido, Samuel P ^c   Misichronis, Konstantinos ^d   Rangou, Sofia ^d   Avgeropoulos, Apostolos ^d   Tsoukatos, Thodoris ^e   Hadjichristidis, Nikos ^e,h   Beyer, Frederick L ^f   Mays, Jimmy W ^g  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^h KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRIBLOCK; CYCLOHEXADIENES; GROUP CONTRIBUTION METHOD; POLY (1 , 3CYCLOHEXADIENE); REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); TRIBLOCK TERPOLYMERS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONFORMATIONS; EXPERIMENTS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYSTYRENES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84873656984     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la304576c     Document Type: Article

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