Smart polymer brushes and their emerging applications

RSC Advances

Volumn 2, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8557-8578

  Peng, Shunjin ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMERS; POLYMERS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; RESEARCH INTERESTS; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; RESPONSIVE MATERIALS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE PROPERTIES;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 84874858480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ra20451g     Document Type: Article

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