Lower and Upper Critical Ordering Temperatures in Compressible Diblock Copolymer Melts from a Perturbed Hard-Sphere-Chain Equation of State
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عنوان ژورنال: Macromolecules
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0024-9297,1520-5835
DOI: 10.1021/ma970796v