Influence of chain rigidity on the phase behavior of wormlike diblock copolymers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Ying ^a,b   Chen, Jeff Z Y ^b  

^a WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; EFFICIENT NUMERICAL SCHEMES; FULL THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORDERED MICROSTRUCTURES; PHYSICAL PICTURES; RODLIKE POLYMER; SELF CONSISTENT FIELD THEORY; WORM-LIKE CHAIN MODELS;

MEAN FIELD THEORY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; RIGIDITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84875721917     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.138305     Document Type: Article

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