Unveiling thermal transitions of polymers in subnanometre pores

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Uemura, Takashi ^a,b   Yanai, Nobuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Hideki ^a   Numaguchi, Ryohei ^a   Miyahara, Minoru T ^a   Ohta, Yusuke ^c   Nagaoka, Masataka ^c   Kitagawa, Susumu ^a,d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; NANOCHANNEL; POLYMER; POROUS COORDINATION POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84875879397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1091     Document Type: Article

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