Liquid crystalline polymer vesicles: Thermotropic phases in lyotropic structures

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 368-384

  Jia, Lin ^a,b,c   Li, Min Hui ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

amphiphilic block copolymers; liquid crystalline polymers; nematic; polymersomes; smectic; stimuli responsive

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897637501     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.827753     Document Type: Article

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