A simple route to highly oriented and ordered nanoporous block copolymer templates

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 766-772

  Park, Soojin ^a   Wang, Jia Yu ^a   Kim, Bokyung ^a   Xu, Ji ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Block copolymer; Gold evaporation; Perpendicular orientation; PS b P4VP; Reactive ion etching; Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BUTENES; COPOLYMERIZATION; GERMANIUM; GOLD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; ORGANIC POLYMERS; OXIDE FILMS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STYRENE; THICK FILMS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (E ,3E) PROCESS; (ETHYLENE VINYL ALCOHOL) COPOLYMERS; 4 VINYLPYRIDINE (P4VP); AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BLOCK COPOLYMER TEMPLATES; DEGREE OF ORDER; DIBLOCK; LATERAL ORDERING; MICRO-DOMAINS; MIXED SOLVENTS; NANO POROUS; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORDERED NANOPOROUS; POLY BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PBT); POLYIMIDE (PI); PREFERENTIAL SOLVATION; REACTIVE ION; SILICON OXIDES; WIDE-RANGE;

POLYMERS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLY(STYRENE) BLOCK POLY(4 VINYLPYRINDINE) DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; POLY(STYRENE)-BLOCK-POLY(4-VINYLPYRINDINE) DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; POLYVINYLS; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 46849084964     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn7004415     Document Type: Article

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