Macroscopic vertical alignment of nanodomains in thin films of semiconductor amphiphilic block copolymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 6069-6078

  Brendel, Johannes C ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Lang, Andreas S ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^b   Thelakkat, Mukundan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

click chemistry; controlled polymerization; GISAXS; nanostructures; orientation; RAFT; solvent annealing

Indexed keywords

CLICK CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED POLYMERIZATION; GI-SAXS; RAFT; SOLVENT ANNEALING;

ALIGNMENT; ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; MICELLES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THIN FILMS; VAPORS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; MACROMOLECULE; NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE;

HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84880789852     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401877g     Document Type: Article

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