Solvent-free, supersoft and superelastic bottlebrush melts and networks

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 183-189

  Daniel, William F M ^a   Burdyńska, Joanna ^b   Vatankhah Varnoosfaderani, Mohammad ^a   Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof ^b   Paturej, Jarosław ^a,d   Rubinstein, Michael ^a   Dobrynin, Andrey V ^c   Sheiko, Sergei S ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The University of Akron   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHAINS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; GELS; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLVENTS; STIFFNESS;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BOTTLE-BRUSH MACROMOLECULES; GEL PROPERTIES; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER GELS; SOLVENT FRACTION; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

POLYMER MELTS;

EID: 84955759434     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4508     Document Type: Article

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