Membranes with highly ordered straight nanopores by selective swelling of fast perpendicularly aligned block copolymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 9961-9974

  Yin, Jun ^a   Yao, Xueping ^a   Liou, Jiun You ^b   Sun, Wei ^a   Sun, Ya Sen ^b   Wang, Yong ^a  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

atomic layer deposition; block copolymers; membranes; nanopores; solvent annealing

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED NANOTUBES; AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PERPENDICULAR ORIENTATION; POROUS MEMBRANES; SMALL-ANGLE X-RAYS; SOLVENT ANNEALING;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEPOSITION; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOPORES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLVENTS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84888874929     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403847z     Document Type: Article

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