Significant melting point depression of two-dimensional folded-chain crystals of isotactic poly(methyl methacrylate)s observed by high-resolution in situ atomic force microscopy

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 5594-5605

  Takanashi, Yuma ^a,b   Kumaki, Jiro ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CASIO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MELTING POINT; MICA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOLAYERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SAPPHIRE; SUBSTRATES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE; LANGMUIR MONOLAYERS; MELTING BEHAVIOR; MELTING POINT DEPRESSIONS; MOLECULAR IMAGES; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES; SITU ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ESTERS;

EID: 84877693747     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401284t     Document Type: Article

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