Molecular pathways for defect annihilation in directed self-assembly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 14144-14149

  Hur, Su Mi ^a,b,c   Thapar, Vikram ^d   Ramírez Hernández, Abelardo ^a,b   Khaira, Gurdaman ^b   Segal Peretz, Tamar ^a   Rincon Delgadillo, Paulina A ^b   Li, Weihua ^e,f   Müller, Marcus ^e   Nealey, Paul F ^a,b   De Pablo, Juan J ^a,b  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Copolymer; Defect|minimum free energy path; Directed self assembly; String method

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER;

ARTICLE; DIPOLE; FORCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84957535434     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508225112     Document Type: Article

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