Self-organized polyelectrolyte end-grafted layers under nanoconfinement

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9998-10008

  Tagliazucchi, Mario ^a,b   Li, Xing ^a   Olvera De La Cruz, Monica ^a,b   Szleifer, Igal ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregates; molecular interactions; pH; polyelectrolyte brush; poor solvent

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); MICELLES; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PH; POLYELECTROLYTES; SOLS; SOLVENTS;

METASTABLE STRUCTURES; PLANAR POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES; POOR SOLVENTS; SELF-ASSEMBLED LAYERS; STERIC INTERACTIONS; SURFACE FORCE APPARATUS; WEAK POLYELECTROLYTES;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84908402777     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502008x     Document Type: Article

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