Bending elasticity of a curved amphiphilic film decorated with anchored copolymers: A small angle neutron scattering study

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Appell, Jacqueline ^a   Ligoure, Christian ^a   Porte, Grégoire ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

copolymers; elasticity (experiment); self assembly; surfactants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900988256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2004/08/P08002     Document Type: Article

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