Nanoparticle-driven orientation transition and soft-shear alignment in diblock copolymer films via dynamic thermal gradient field

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 1642-1647

  Zhang, Ren ^a   Singh, Gurpreet ^b   Dang, Alei ^c   Dai, Lu ^c   Bockstaller, Michael R ^c   Akgun, Bulent ^e,f   Satija, Sushil ^d   Karim, Alamgir ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

aligned nanostructure; block copolymers; composites; nanoparticles; zone annealing

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMER FILMS; DIBLOCK CO-POLYMER FILMS; FAVORABLE INTERACTIONS; HORIZONTAL CYLINDERS; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; MORPHOLOGY TRANSITIONS; ORIENTATION TRANSITION; ZONE ANNEALING;

ALIGNMENT; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

LOADING;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLY(STYRENE BLOCK METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLY(STYRENE-BLOCK-METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ALIGNED NANOSTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZONE ANNEALING;

ALIGNED NANOSTRUCTURE; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; ZONE ANNEALING;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 84885601610     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201300485     Document Type: Article

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