Crystallization-Driven Co-Assembly of Micrometric Polymer Hybrid Single Crystals and Nanometric Crystalline Micelles

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2006-2015

  Fan, Bin ^a   Wang, Rui Yang ^a   Wang, Xiang Yue ^a   Xu, Jun Ting ^a   Du, Bin Yang ^a   Fan, Zhi Qiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COBALT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICELLES; POLYETHYLENES;

BLOCK CO-POLYMER MICELLES; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; CYLINDRICAL MICELLES; DOUBLE LAYER STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; POLY (TERT-BUTYL ACRYLATE); POLYMER SINGLE CRYSTALS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 85015170692     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00105     Document Type: Article

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