Hierarchical nanostructures self-assembled from a mixture system containing rod-coil block copolymers and rigid homopolymers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Yongliang ^a   Jiang, Tao ^a   Lin, Shaoliang ^a   Lin, Jiaping ^a   Cai, Chunhua ^a   Zhu, Xingyu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

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EID: 84929223571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10137     Document Type: Article

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