Safe storage of radical initiators within a polyaromatic nanocapsule

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yamashina, Masahiro ^a   Sei, Yoshihisa ^a   Akita, Munetaka ^a   Yoshizawa, Michito ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,2' AZOBIS(2 METHYLBUTYRONITRILE); 2,2' AZOBIS(4 METHOXY 2,4 DIMETHYLVALERONITRILE); AZO COMPOUND; AZOBISISOBUTYRONITRILE; NANOCAPSULE; RADICAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; POLYMER; REACTION KINETICS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EXPLOSION; KINETICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOENCAPSULATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE; THERMOSTABILITY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907323683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5662     Document Type: Article

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