Cylindrically confined diblock copolymers

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 9082-9088

  Dobriyal, Priyanka ^a   Xiang, Hongqi ^b   Kazuyuki, Matsunaga ^c   Chen, Jiun Tai ^a   Jinnai, Hiroshi ^c   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Cabot Microelectronics   (Japan)

^c KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D CONFINEMENT; ANODIZED ALUMINUM OXIDE; CAPILLARY FORCE; CONCENTRIC CYLINDERS; CORE-SHELL; DEGREE OF CONFINEMENT; DIBLOCK COPOLYMER; MICRO-DOMAINS; PORE DIAMETERS; TEM; THERMAL-ANNEALING; WEAK ACIDS;

ALUMINA; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DISSOLUTION; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; NANORODS; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYSTYRENES; SPHERES; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 71549134010     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901730a     Document Type: Article

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