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Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 498920, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/498920
Synthesis and Morphological Transformation of Conjugated Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers in Mixed Solvents
1Department of Materials Engineering, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Road, Taishan District, New Taipei City 24301, Taiwan
2Center for Thin Film Technologies and Applications, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Road, Taishan, New Taipei City 243, Taiwan
3Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology, 84 Gungjuan Road, Taishan District, New Taipei City 24301, Taiwan
Received 9 November 2012; Accepted 29 December 2012
Academic Editor: Gong Ru Lin
Copyright © 2013 Yang-Yen Yu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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