Thermodynamics of block copolymers with and without salt

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-17

  Teran, Alexander A ^a,b   Balsara, Nitash P ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORY-HUGGINS INTERACTION PARAMETER; FLORY-HUGGINS PARAMETER; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; RANDOM PHASE APPROXIMATIONS; RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY; SALT CONCENTRATION; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MIXTURES; THERMODYNAMICS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84892590521     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp408079z     Document Type: Article

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