Bridging the Gap between the Mesoscopic 2D Order-Order Transition and Molecular-Level Reorganization in Dot-Patterned Block Copolymer Monolayers

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 9089-9099

  Richard Lacroix, Marie ^a,b,c   Borozenko, Kateryna ^a   Pellerin, Christian ^a   Bazuin, C Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BORON CARBIDE; HYDROGEN BONDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOTHERMS; MONOLAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ALKYL CHAIN CONFORMATION; AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; ORDER-ORDER TRANSITIONS; POLARIZED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLY(4-VINYL PYRIDINE); SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPLEXES;

LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS;

EID: 85006320222     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01980     Document Type: Article

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