Grafting density induced reentrant disorder–order–disorder transition in planar di-block copolymer brushes
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چکیده
By means of multiscale molecular simulation, we here present a re-entrant disorder/order/disorder transition in diblock copolymer brushes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1744-683X', '1744-6848']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sm02154g