Corona Liquid Crystalline Order Helps to Form Single Crystals When Self-Assembly Takes Place in the Crystalline/Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers

ACS Macro Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 867-872

  Tong, Zaizai ^a,b,c   Li, Yanming ^a   Xu, Haian ^a   Chen, Hua ^a   Yu, Weijiang ^a   Zhuo, Wangqian ^a   Zhang, Runke ^a   Jiang, Guohua ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Laboratory for Textile Fiber Materials and Processing Technology (Zhejiang)   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

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EID: 84979084953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21611653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00428     Document Type: Article

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