Modeling swelling behavior of thermoresponsive polymer brush with lattice density functional theory

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 4040-4048

  Lian, Cheng ^a   Wang, Le ^b   Chen, Xueqian ^a   Han, Xia ^a   Zhao, Shuangliang ^a   Liu, Honglai ^a   Hu, Ying ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDRIMERS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

BULK PHASE DIAGRAMS; LATTICE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES; POLYMER BRUSHES; SWELLING BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; THERMO-RESPONSIVE; THERMO-RESPONSIVE BEHAVIORS; THERMORESPONSIVE POLYMER BRUSHES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84898902936     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5003429     Document Type: Article

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