Micellization and gelation of PEO-PPO-PEO binary mixture with non-identical PPO block lengths in aqueous solution

Polymer

Volumn 55, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 5284-5291

  Pragatheeswaran, Abhinav Maheswaran ^a   Chen, Shing Bor ^a   Chen, Chi Fan ^b   Chen, Bing Hung ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gel; Micelle; Mixed block copolymer

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GELATION; GELS; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYPROPYLENE OXIDES; POLYPROPYLENES; SOLS; SOLUTIONS;

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; CLOUD POINT TEMPERATURE; GEL STRENGTHS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; MIXED MICELLES; POLYETHYLENE OXIDE (PEO); TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TEMPERATURE RAMP;

MICELLES;

EID: 85027948273     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.08.031     Document Type: Article

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