Perfect mixing of immiscible macromolecules at fluid interfaces

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 735-740

  Sheiko, Sergei S ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Arnold, Jamie ^a   Neugebauer, Dorota ^b   Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof ^b   Tsitsilianis, Constantinos ^c   Tsukruk, Vladimir V ^d   Carrillo, Jan Michael Y ^e   Dobrynin, Andrey V ^f   Rubinstein, Michael ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^f SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUSH-LIKE POLYMERS; CANONICAL PROBLEMS; CONFORMATIONAL ENTROPY; COORDINATION COMPLEX; MATERIALS ENGINEERING; POLYMER ARCHITECTURE; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SURFACE ACTIVE SPECIES;

BRUSHES; COORDINATION REACTIONS; FLUIDITY; MIXING; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 84880804225     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3651     Document Type: Article

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