Block copolymers (BCPs) have received great attention for the past 40 years but only within
the past decade have they been seriously considered for nanotechnological applications …

Recently, a new spotlight has been focused on block copolymers, thoroughly studied for
nearly half a century, because of their potential use in numerous nanotechnologies. This …

The nanometer-scale architectures in thin films of self-assembling block copolymers have
inspired a variety of new applications. For example, the uniformly sized and shaped …

The lithographic process is arguably the key enabling technology for the digital age.
Hundreds of millions of devices can be fabricated on a single chip because patterns with …

Ion-conducting electrolyte membranes are essential parts of electrochemical energy storage
devices like fuel cells and are crucial for energy conversion. However, the most widely used …

Polymeric materials can assemble into a multitude of intricate nanoscale morphologies
whose free energy differs by only a fraction of the thermal energy per molecule. Such small …

Domain orientations in thin films of lamellar copolymers are evaluated as a function of
copolymer architecture, film thickness, and processing conditions. Two copolymer …

Surface directed instability and dewetting in thin films and resulting morphologies are
studied using 3D nonlinear simulations based on the equations of motion, both for the …

A novel approach to manipulate the surface free energy and wettability on polybenzoxazine
thin films can be achieved simply by varying the time of thermal treatment or UV exposure. A …

The directed assembly of lamella-forming copolymer systems on substrates chemically
patterned with rough stripes has been studied using a Helfrich-type, phenomenological …