Graphoepitaxy of cylinder-forming block copolymers for use as templates to pattern magnetic metal dot arrays

S Xiao, XM Yang, EW Edwards, YH La… - Nanotechnology, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a method to fabricate high-quality patterned magnetic dot arrays using block
copolymer lithography, metal deposition, and a dry lift-off technique. Long-range order of …

Phase diagram for a diblock copolymer melt under cylindrical confinement

W Li, RA Wickham, RA Garbary - Macromolecules, 2006 - ACS Publications
We extensively study the phase diagram of a diblock copolymer melt confined in a
cylindrical nanopore using real-space self-consistent mean-field theory. We discover a rich …

Self-assembled morphologies of a diblock copolymer melt confined in a cylindrical nanopore

W Li, RA Wickham - Macromolecules, 2006 - ACS Publications
We systematically investigate the microdomain morphologies that self-assemble in a diblock
copolymer melt confined to a narrow cylindrical nanopore using real-space self-consistent …

Hard-surface effects in polymer self-consistent field calculations

D Meng, Q Wang - The Journal of chemical physics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We have investigated several effects due to the confinement of polymer melts by
impenetrable (hard) surfaces in the self-consistent field calculations. To adequately …

Depletion-induced surface alignment of asymmetric diblock copolymer in selective solvents

R Wang, YL Chen, J Hu, G Xue - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Phase separation of asymmetric diblock copolymer near surfaces in selective solvents is
theoretically investigated by using the real-space version of self-consistent field theory …

Directed self-assembly of cylinder-forming diblock copolymers on sparse chemical patterns

YB Yang, YJ Choi, SO Kim, JU Kim - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Using both theory and experiment, we investigate the possibility of creating perfectly ordered
block copolymer nanostructures on sparsely patterned substrates. Our study focuses on …

Self-consistent field study of the alignment by an electric field of a cylindrical phase of block copolymer

CY Lin, M Schick - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
Self-consistent field theory is applied to a film of cylindrical-forming block copolymer subject
to a surface field which tends to align the cylinders parallel to electrical plates, and to an …

Self assembly of ABC triblock copolymer thin films on a brush-coated substrate

Z Jiang, R Wang, G Xue - Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2009 - World Scientific
Self assemblies of ABC triblock copolymer thin films on a densely brush-coated substrate
were investigated by using the self-consistent field theory. The middle block B and the …

Surface-induced phase transition of asymmetric diblock copolymer in selective solvents

R Wang, Z Jiang, YL Chen, G Xue - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Surface-induced phase transition of asymmetric diblock copolymer in selective solvents is
first theoretically investigated by using the real-space version of self-consistent field theory …

Surfactant two-dimensional self-assembly under confinement

ML Sushko, J Liu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2011 - ACS Publications
Confinement-induced structural rearrangements in supported self-assembled surfactant
layers in aqueous salt solutions are investigated using classical density functional theory …