Spontaneous assembly of carbon-based chains in polymer matrixes through surface charge templates

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 15503-15510

  Gennari, O ^a   Grilli, S ^a   Coppola, S ^a   Pagliarulo, V ^a   Vespini, V ^a   Coppola, G ^b   Bhowmick, S ^b   Gioffre M A ^b   Gentile, G ^c   Ambrogi, V ^d   Cerruti, P ^c   Carfagna, C ^c,d   Ferraro, P ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c National Council of Research   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC FEATURES; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FERROELECTRIC CRYSTAL; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

ALIGNMENT; CARBON; ELECTRIC FIELDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARGE;

CHAINS;

CARBON; POLYMER;

CHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CARBON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84890710532     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la403603d     Document Type: Article

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