Synthesis and solution properties of double hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (PEO-b-PEtOx) star block copolymers

Polymers

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1081-1101

  Rudolph, Tobias ^a   Crotty, Sarah ^a,b   der Lühe, Moritz von ^a   Pretzel, David ^a   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b   Schacher, Felix H ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-ETHYL-2-OXAZOLINE; CLICK CHEMISTRY; DOUBLE HYDROPHILIC; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (FT-IR); REPEATING UNIT; SOLUTION BEHAVIOR; SOLUTION PROPERTY; STAR BLOCK COPOLYMER;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84885093699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym5031081     Document Type: Article

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