Thermally reversible surface morphology transition in thin diblock copolymer films

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3653-3660

  Zhang, Xiaohua ^a   Yager, Kevin G ^a,b   Fredin, Nathaniel J ^a   Ro, Hyun Wook ^a   Jones, Ronald L ^a   Karim, Alamgir ^a,c   Douglas, Jack F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

block copolymer; surface morphology; thermal reversible; thin film; transition

Indexed keywords

COATED FILMS; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER FILMS; ETCHED FILMS; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; INTERFACIAL TRANSITION; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; METHYL METHACRYLATES; MICRO-PHASE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; NANO-MANUFACTURING; ORDER-ORDER TRANSITIONS; ORDERING TRANSITIONS; OUTER LAYER; SURFACE THERMODYNAMICS; THERMAL-REVERSIBLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ESTERS; MORPHOLOGY; SPHERES; STYRENE; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACES; THERMODYNAMICS; THIN FILMS; X RAY SCATTERING;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 77955527637     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9016586     Document Type: Article

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