Electric field induced selective disordering in lamellar block copolymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3854-3867

  Ruppel, Markus ^a   Pester, Christian W ^b   Langner, Karol M ^c   Sevink, Geert J A ^c   Schoberth, Heiko G ^b   Schmidt, Kristin ^d   Urban, Volker S ^a   Mays, Jimmy W ^a   Böker, Alexander ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

block copolymer; electric field; SAXS; selective disordering

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FIELD-ASSISTED ANNEALING; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; ORIENTATIONAL DISORDER; SAXS; SELECTIVE DISORDERING; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRICITY; POLYMERS; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84878331704     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3059604     Document Type: Article

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