Double and single network phases in polystyrene-block-poly(l-lactide) diblock copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2997-3004

  Wang, Xin Bo ^a,b   Lo, Ting Ya ^a   Hsueh, Han Yu ^a   Ho, Rong Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POLYSTYRENES; SILICA; SOL-GELS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CHAIN CONFORMATIONS; DOUBLE-GYROID PHASE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; NANOCHANNEL NETWORK; ORTHORHOMBIC NETWORK; POROUS CERAMIC MATERIALS; TETRA-ETHYL-ORTHO-SILICATE;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 84876730663     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma400264v     Document Type: Article

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