Original Article
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Vertically Aligned Inverse Block Copolymer Cylinders

  • Seongho Jeon*, Junmyeong Jang*, Suwon Bae*†

  • *School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University

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Correspondence to

  • Suwon Bae

  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University

  • E-mail: suwon.bae@pusan.ac.kr