Block Copolymers with Crystallizable Blocks: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications

Block copolymers with crystallizable blocks have moved into the focus of current research, owing to their unique self-assembly behaviour and properties. New synthetic concepts give, for example, even access to tetrablock copolymers with four crystalline blocks, bio-based thermoplastic elastomers (e....

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Other Authors: Schmalz, Holger (Editor), Abetz, Volker (Editor)
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Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
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653 |a crystalline-core micelles 
653 |a patchy micelles 
653 |a block copolymers 
653 |a crystal morphologies 
653 |a polymer crystallization 
653 |a nucleation mechanism 
653 |a scaling relations 
653 |a crystallization-driven self-assembly 
653 |a calcium alginate hydrogel 
653 |a cylindrical micelles 
653 |a poly(vinylidene fluoride)/polymethylene 
653 |a blends 
653 |a diblock copolymers 
653 |a ferroelectric phase 
653 |a semicrystalline block copolymers 
653 |a phase separation and crystallization 
653 |a epitaxial crystallization 
653 |a nanostructures 
653 |a kinetics 
653 |a fragmentation 
653 |a growth 
653 |a polypeptoids 
653 |a crystallization 
653 |a solution self-assembly 
653 |a triblock terpolymers 
653 |a polyethylene (PE) 
653 |a poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) 
653 |a poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL) 
653 |a tricrystalline spherulites 
653 |a copolymer 
653 |a membrane 
653 |a hydrocarbon 
653 |a cohesive energy density 
653 |a gas separation 
653 |a semicrystalline polymer 
653 |a 3D confinement 
653 |a ABC triblock terpolymers 
653 |a degradation 
653 |a emulsification 
653 |a microparticles 
653 |a n/a 
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