50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Crystals and Crystallization: Personal Journeys in a Challenging Research Field

B Lotz, T Miyoshi, SZD Cheng - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Analyzing and understanding the structure and morphology of crystalline polymers has been
and remains to be a major challenge. Some of the issues have resisted analyses for …

Directed block copolymer thin film self-assembly: emerging trends in nanopattern fabrication

M Luo, TH Epps III - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers have garnered significant attention in the past few decades due to their
ability to self-assemble into nanoscale structures (∼ 10–100 nm), making them ideal for …

Controlled solvent vapor annealing of a high χ block copolymer thin film

R Lundy, SP Flynn, C Cummins, SM Kelleher… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular self-assembling block copolymers (BCPs) have shown promise as a next
generation bottom-up lithography technology. However, a critical step in advancing this …

Sub-10 nm Feature Size PS-b-PDMS Block Copolymer Structures Fabricated by a Microwave-Assisted Solvothermal Process

D Borah, MT Shaw, JD Holmes… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Block copolymer (BCP) microphase separation at surfaces might enable the generation of
substrate features in a scalable, manufacturable, bottom-up fashion provided that pattern …

Phase Transitions of Polystyrene-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane) in Solvents of Varying Selectivity

TY Lo, CC Chao, RM Ho, P Georgopanos… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
A simple method to create a variety of nanostructures via the self-assembly of a single
composition silicon-containing block copolymer (BCP) is developed. By using selective …

Photoluminescent Arrays of Nanopatterned Monolayer MoS2

GGD Han, KH Tu, F Niroui, W Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Monolayer 2D MoS2 grown by chemical vapor deposition is nanopatterned into nanodots,
nanorods, and hexagonal nanomesh using block copolymer (BCP) lithography. The detailed …

Reordering transitions during annealing of block copolymer cylinder phases

PW Majewski, KG Yager - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
While equilibrium block-copolymer morphologies are dictated by energy-minimization
effects, the semi-ordered states observed experimentally often depend on the details of …

Alignment and reordering of a block copolymer by solvent-enhanced thermal laser direct write

JP Singer, KW Gotrik, JH Lee, SE Kooi, CA Ross… - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
Block copolymer (BCP) thin films have shown high potential as a pattern transfer medium for
ultra-fine (< 20 nm) features. We introduce an effective approach for performing rapid local …

Easy-Processable and Aging-Free All-Polymer Polysiloxane Composites

L Shen, T Wang, S Goyal, TH Lee, FY Lin… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Here, we report all-polymer polysiloxane composites that overcome the long-standing
processing problems of silica-reinforced silicone rubbers. Polystyrene fillers are dispersed …

Achieving structural control with thin polystyrene-b-polydimethylsiloxane block copolymer films: The complex relationship of interface chemistry, annealing …

BMD O'Driscoll, RA Kelly, M Shaw… - European Polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
The structure of thin microphase-separated polystyrene-block-polydimethylsiloxane (PS–
PDMS) films has been studied using state-of-the-art top-down and cross-sectional electron …