Polymerization-Induced Interfacial Self-Assembly of Janus Nanoparticles in Block Copolymers: Reaction-Mediated Entropy Effects, Diffusion Dynamics, and Tailorable Micromechanical Behaviors

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2078-2091

  Chen, Pengyu ^a   Yang, Ye ^a   Dong, Bojun ^a   Huang, Zihan ^a   Zhu, Guolong ^a   Cao, Yufei ^a   Yan, Li Tang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ENTROPY; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; MONOMERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE INTERFACES; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

INTERFACIAL ORGANIZATION; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; INTERFACIAL SELF ASSEMBLIES; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MICRO-MECHANICAL MODELING; MICROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; NANOSTRUCTURED SYSTEMS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 85015178107     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00012     Document Type: Article

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