Self-assembly of diblock copolymers under confinement

AC Shi, B Li - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Block copolymers are a class of soft matter that self-assemble to form ordered morphologies
at nanometer scales, making them ideal materials for various applications. The self …

Supramolecular organization of polymeric materials in nanoporous hard templates

M Steinhart - Self-Assembled Nanomaterials Ii: Nanotubes, 2008 - Springer
A broad range of polymeric materials can be formed into nanotubes by means of
nanoporous hardtemplates containing arrays of aligned, cylindrical nanopores. Functional …

Cylindrically confined diblock copolymers

P Dobriyal, H Xiang, M Kazuyuki, JT Chen… - …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Lamella-, cylinder-, and sphere-forming block copolymers (BCPs) of polystyrene-b-
polybutadiene (PS-b-PBD) were drawn into the pores of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) …

Self-assembly of symmetric diblock copolymers confined in spherical nanopores

B Yu, B Li, Q Jin, D Ding, AC Shi - Macromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of symmetric diblock copolymers confined in spherical nanopores is studied
using simulated annealing Monte Carlo simulations. The dependence of the self-assembled …

Solvent-driven evolution of block copolymer morphology under 3D confinement

L Li, K Matsunaga, J Zhu, T Higuchi, H Yabu… - …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles with concentric layered structures were generated from a lamellae-forming
poly (styrene-b-isoprene) diblock copolymer using controlled precipitation from a …

Electrospun polymer nanofibers with internal periodic structure obtained by microphase separation of cylindrically confined block copolymers

M Ma, V Krikorian, JH Yu, EL Thomas, GC Rutledge - Nano letters, 2006 - ACS Publications
Continuous fibers are described having concentric layer or aligned sphere microphase-
separated, styrene-isoprene block copolymer morphologies. The fibers are obtained by a …

Soft confinement-induced morphologies of diblock copolymers

P Chi, Z Wang, B Li, AC Shi - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of diblock copolymers under soft confinement is studied systematically
using a simulated annealing method applied to a lattice model of polymers. The soft …

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 …

Microstructures of a cylinder-forming diblock copolymer under spherical confinement

P Chen, H Liang, AC Shi - Macromolecules, 2008 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of cylinder-forming diblock copolymers under spherical confinement is
studied using real-space self-consistent field theory calculations (SCFT). Various …

Origin of microstructures from confined asymmetric diblock copolymers

P Chen, H Liang, AC Shi - Macromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
The self-assembly of asymmetric diblock copolymers confined within cylindrical pores is
studied using the self-consistent-field theory. The cylinder-forming asymmetric diblock …