Formation and structural characteristics of thermosensitive multiblock copolymer vesicles

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 16010-16017

  Ma, Shiying ^a,b   Xiao, Mengying ^a   Wang, Rong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TAISHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; MORPHOLOGICAL PHASE DIAGRAM; MULTIBLOCK CO-POLYMERS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84896518492     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la404157h     Document Type: Article

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