Going beyond the surface: Revealing complex block copolymer morphologies with 3D scanning force microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5609-5616

  Sperschneider, Alexandra ^a   Hund, Markus ^a   Schoberth, Heiko G ^a   Schacher, Felix H ^a   Tsarkova, Larisa ^a   Müller, Axel H E ^a   Böker, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABC triblock terpolymer; microphase separation; QIS SFM nanotomography; selective hydroxylation; thin film

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; 3D-SCANNING; ABC TRIBLOCK; BUTYL METHACRYLATES; CONTROLLED EROSION; IN-SITU; LOW PRESSURE PLASMA; MICRO-DOMAIN STRUCTURES; NANOTOMOGRAPHY; POLY(2-VINYL PYRIDINE); SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPES; SELECTIVE HYDROXYLATION; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRIBLOCK TERPOLYMERS; VOLUME ELEMENTS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; HYDROXYLATION; MICROPHASE SEPARATION; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASMA ETCHING; POLYBUTADIENES; SCANNING; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THIN FILMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; ELASTOMER; METHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; POLYBUTADIENE; POLYMER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; HYDROXYLATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BUTADIENES; ELASTOMERS; HYDROXYLATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; METHACRYLATES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; PRESSURE; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 78049326415     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1010683     Document Type: Article

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