Effect of Tapering on Morphology and Interfacial Behavior of Diblock Copolymers from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Macromolecules

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4974-4982

  Seo, Youngmi ^a   Brown, Jonathan R ^a   Hall, Lisa M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

AB DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; COARSE-GRAINED MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; INTERFACIAL BEHAVIORS; MEAN SQUARED DISPLACEMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84937943779     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma502309h     Document Type: Article

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