Orienting block copolymer microdomains with block copolymer brushes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 10250-10257

  Gu, Weiyin ^a   Hong, Sung Woo ^a,b   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

block copolymer thin film; controlled orientation; polymer brushes; substrate modification

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER THIN FILMS; CONTROLLED ORIENTATION; COPOLYMER BRUSHES; LATERAL ORDERING; MICRO-DOMAINS; POLY(STYRENE-B-ETHYLENE OXIDE); POLYMER BRUSHES; PREFERENTIAL INTERACTION; ROBUST TECHNIQUE; SEGMENTAL INTERACTION PARAMETERS; SI SUBSTRATES; SUBSTRATE MODIFICATIONS; SURFACE-MODIFIED; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; SILICON; STYRENE; THIN FILMS;

SUBSTRATES;

MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYSTYRENES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870454124     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304049w     Document Type: Article

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