Structures and Surface States of Polymer Brushes in Good Solvents: Effects of Surface Interactions
- Corresponding author: Yi-Xin Liu, lyx@fudan.edu.cn
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Yi-Xin Liu, Hong-Dong Zhang. Structures and Surface States of Polymer Brushes in Good Solvents: Effects of Surface Interactions[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science,
;2018, 36(9): 1047-1054.
doi:
10.1007/s10118-018-2100-4
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