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Self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers from weakly to moderately segregated regimes

N Sary1, C Brochon, G Hadziioannou

  • 1Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Ch. Musée 3, CH-1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.

The European Physical Journal. E, Soft Matter
|January 22, 2008
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