Exactly defined half-stemmed polymer lamellar crystals with precisely controlled defects' locations

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2356-2360

  Dong, Xue Hui ^a   Van Horn, Ryan ^a,d   Chen, Ziran ^a   Ni, Bo ^a   Yu, Xinfei ^a   Wurm, Andreas ^b   Schick, Christoph ^b   Lotz, Bernard ^c   Zhang, Wen Bin ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

chain folding; crystallization; molecular nanoparticles; poly(ethylene oxide)

Indexed keywords

CHAIN FOLDING; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; LAMELLAR CRYSTALS; LAMELLAR SURFACE; MOLECULAR SHAPES; POLY (ETHYLENE OXIDE) (PEO); POLYHEDRAL SILSESQUIOXANE; POLYMER CHAINS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS;

EID: 84880521372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401132j     Document Type: Article

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