Archimedean Tilings and Hierarchical Lamellar Morphology Formed by Semicrystalline Miktoarm Star Terpolymer Thin Films

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4055-4061

  Aissou, Karim ^a   Kwon, Wonsang ^a   Mumtaz, Muhammad ^a,b   Antoine, Ségolène ^a   Maret, Mireille ^c   Portale, Giuseppe ^d   Fleury, Guillaume ^a   Hadziioannou, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b ARKEMA   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Science et Ingénierie des Matériaux et Procédés   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 miktoarm star terpolymer; Archimedean tiling; directed self assembly; hierarchical lamellar pattern; topographical substrate

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY; STARS; SUBSTRATES;

ARCHIMEDEAN TILING; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; LAMELLAR MORPHOLOGY; LAMELLAR PATTERNS; NANO-METER SCALE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; SEMICRYSTALLINES; STAR TERPOLYMERS;

TERPOLYMERS;

EID: 84968813341     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b06728     Document Type: Article

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