Cobalt nanoparticles growth on a block copolymer thin film: A time-resolved gisaxs study

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 6331-6340

  Metwalli, Ezzeldin ^a   Körstgens, Volker ^a   Schlage, Kai ^b   Meier, Robert ^a   Kaune, Gunar ^a,c   Buffet, Adeline ^b   Couet, Sebastien ^b,d   Roth, Stephan V ^b   Röhlsberger, Ralf ^b   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC NANOPARTICLES; BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; COBALT NANOPARTICLES; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; POLY (ETHYLENE OXIDE) (PEO); POLYMER SURFACES; POLYMER TEMPLATES; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS;

AGGLOMERATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COALESCENCE; COBALT; DEPOSITION; METALS; NANOWIRES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

COBALT; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TIME; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COBALT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84878269300     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la400741b     Document Type: Article

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