Self-seeding in one dimension: A route to uniform fiber-like nanostructures from block copolymers with a crystallizable core-forming block

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3754-3766

  Qian, Jieshu ^a   Lu, Yijie ^a   Chia, Anselina ^a   Zhang, Meng ^a   Rupar, Paul A ^b,c   Gunari, Nikhil ^a   Walker, Gilbert C ^a   Cambridge, Graeme ^a   He, Feng ^a,d   Guerin, Gerald ^a   Manners, Ian ^b   Winnik, Mitchell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

block copolymers; crystalline coil; self seeding

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CO-POLYMER MICELLES; CRYSTALLINE-COIL; CRYSTALLINE-COIL BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; POLY(2-VINYLPYRIDINE) (P2VP); SELF SEEDING; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; MICELLES; MICROCHANNELS; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PARAFFINS; SILICONES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84878293912     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400124x     Document Type: Article

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