Phase behavior of a block copolymer/salt mixture through the order-to-disorder transition

Macromolecules

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2666-2673

  Thelen, Jacob L ^a,b   Teran, Alexander A ^a,b   Wang, Xin ^c   Garetz, Bruce A ^c   Nakamura, Issei ^d   Wang, Zhen Gang ^d   Balsara, Nitash P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

BATTERY ELECTROLYTE; DISORDERED PHASIS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; NON-MONOTONIC FUNCTION; ORDER-TO-DISORDER TRANSITIONS; ORDERED DOMAINS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE WINDOW;

MIXTURES;

EID: 84899462893     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma500292n     Document Type: Article

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