Competition between liquid crystallinity and block copolymerself-assembly in core-shell rod-coil block copolymers.

Tenneti, Kishore K; Chen, Xiaofang; Li, Christopher Y; Wan, Xinhua; Fan, Xinghe; Zhou, Qi-Feng; Rong, Lixia; Hsiao, Benjamin S · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Core-shell type of architecture revealed the subtle competition between liquid-crystalline ordering and block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly in a rod-coil BCP system.