Structures and morphologies of biocompatible and biodegradable block copolymers

RSC Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 24566-24583

  Huang, Shaoyong ^b   Jiang, Shichun ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY;

BIODEGRADABLE BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION PATHWAY; MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; POLYMER MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84902669032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra03043e     Document Type: Article

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