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Scattering studies in self-organised diblock copolymer systems

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Similar to many other soft matter systems, diblock copolymers have the ability to self-organise, in the bulk or in the presence of solvents. Various kinds of supramolecular orders emerge, and scattering techniques are often useful for characterising the ensuing structural and dynamic properties over a wide range of space and time scales. Selected light, neutron or x-ray scattering examples on representative systems investigated over the years by P. Štěpánek are reviewed here.

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  1. Ref. [22] is one of the first contributions by P. Štěpánek explicitly mentioning inverse Laplace methods for analysing complex DLS data. The respective merits of the computer programs REPES, CONTIN and MAXENT were then discussed; REPES and its successors remaining up to now the preferred brand in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague—Czech Republic.

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Numerous grants from various Czech, French and European funding agencies—including grant SON/06/E005 from the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic within the EUROCORES Programme SONS of the European Science Foundation, which is also supported by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme, grants 203/99/0573, 202/09/2078 and P208/10/1600 from Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, grant 4050403 from the agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, programme international de coopération scientifique 06130 from Centre national de la recherche scientifique—generously subsidised the scientific collaboration between the recipient of this special issue of Colloid and Polymer Science and the present author. They are gratefully acknowledged.

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This paper is dedicated to Dr. Petr Štěpánek on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

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Nallet, F. Scattering studies in self-organised diblock copolymer systems. Colloid Polym Sci 295, 1383–1389 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-017-4082-0

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