Fabrication of well-defined block copolymer nano-cylinders by controlling the thermodynamics and kinetics involved in block copolymer self-assembly

Soft Matter

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1454-1466

  Ahn, Dae Up ^a   Sancaktar, Erol ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MECHANICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PIGMENTS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; SELF ASSEMBLY; THERMODYNAMICS;

(ETHYLENE VINYL ALCOHOL) COPOLYMERS; 3 DIMENSIONAL; BLOCK COPOLYMER SELF-ASSEMBLY; BLOCK DOMAINS; COPOLYMER MATERIALS; CYLINDER ORIENTATIONS; FABRICATION STRATEGIES; HIGH STABILITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT (HT); HOMO POLYMERS; HOMOPOLYMERS (HP); KINETIC CONTROL; MICRO-DOMAINS; MOLECULAR MOBILITY; NANO-CYLINDERS; NANO-PATTERNING; NANO-PATTERNS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (RSC); SELF-ASSEMBLED;

POLYMERS;

EID: 45749149162     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b801515e     Document Type: Article

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