Crystallization in diblock copolymer thin films at different degrees of supercooling

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Darko, C ^a   Botiz, I ^b   Reiter, G ^b   Breiby, D W ^c   Andreasen, J W ^d   Roth, S V ^e   Smilgies, D M ^f   Metwalli, E ^a   Papadakis, C M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e DESY   (Germany)

^f Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ETHYLENE; OXIDE FILMS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; THIN FILMS; X RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALLINE DOMAINS; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; DEGREE OF SUPERCOOLING; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; GRAIN ORIENTATION; GRAZING INCIDENCE; INTERMEDIATE DEGREE; SUBMICROMETERS;

SUPERCOOLING;

EID: 67650491865     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.041802     Document Type: Article

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41. The chain length L=0.5 lu NPEO of a once-folded PEO of molar mass 3000 g/mol is 9.5 nm, where lu =0.2783 nm is the PEO monomer length and N=68 is the degree of polymerization of the PEO block. The thickness of the amorphous PS layer is estimated by dividing the volume of the PS block by the cross-sectional area of two stems formed by a PEO block in the crystalline state, which results in LPS =2.0 nm. The thickness of a bilayer corresponding to the lamellar period is thus roughly L=2 (LPEO + LPS) =23.0 nm.