Nanorod-Based Supramolecular Nanocomposites: Effects of Nanorod Length

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 6669-6677

  Thorkelsson, Kari ^a   Bronstein, Noah ^b   Xu, Ting ^a,b,c  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASPECT RATIO; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DISSOCIATION; KINETICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; MICRO-DOMAINS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; SUPRAMOLECULAR FRAMEWORK; SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOCOMPOSITES; SUPRAMOLECULES; THERMAL DISSOCIATION; TRAPPED STATE;

NANORODS;

EID: 84987607124     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01145     Document Type: Article

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