Lock/unlock mechanism of solvent-responsive binary polymer brushes: Density functional theory approach

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 4988-4997

  Xu, Yuli ^a   Chen, Xueqian ^a   Han, Xia ^a   Xu, Shouhong ^a   Liu, Honglai ^a   Hu, Ying ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); ENTROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; MOLECULAR CONTRIBUTION; NONSELECTIVE SOLVENT; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; TWO-LAYERED STRUCTURES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WEIGHTED DENSITY APPROXIMATION;

BRUSHES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

SOLVENTS;

EID: 84876728321     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la304984s     Document Type: Article

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