[HTML][HTML] Enabling nanotechnology with self assembled block copolymer patterns

C Park, J Yoon, EL Thomas - Polymer, 2003 - Elsevier
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 …

Directing the self-assembly of block copolymers

SB Darling - Progress in polymer science, 2007 - Elsevier
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 …

Block copolymer thin films: Physics and applications

MJ Fasolka, AM Mayes - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract A two-part review of research concerning block copolymer thin films is presented.
The first section summarizes experimental and theoretical studies of the fundamental …

Ordering in thin films of block copolymers: Fundamentals to potential applications

IW Hamley - Progress in polymer science, 2009 - Elsevier
The ordering of block copolymers in thin films is reviewed, starting from the fundamental
principles and extending to recent promising developments as templates for …

Polymers on nanoperiodic, heterogeneous surfaces

L Rockford, Y Liu, P Mansky, TP Russell, M Yoon… - Physical review …, 1999 - APS
Herein we establish a relationship between controlled nanoscale surface interactions and
subsequent macromolecular ordering. Striped surfaces of oxide and metal are generated …

Using surface active random copolymers to control the domain orientation in diblock copolymer thin films

E Huang, TP Russell, C Harrison, PM Chaikin… - …, 1998 - ACS Publications
The structure of thin films of a symmetric diblock copolymer, P (dS-b-MMA)(dS=
perdeuterated styrene, MMA= methyl methacrylate), was investigated near preferential and …

Nanodomain control in copolymer thin films

E Huang, L Rockford, TP Russell, CJ Hawker - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Diblock copolymers are composed of two chemically distinct chains covalently bonded
together at one end. We have discovered how to control the orientation of diblock copolymer …

Observed surface energy effects in confined diblock copolymers

GJ Kellogg, DG Walton, AM Mayes, P Lambooy… - Physical review …, 1996 - APS
By using thin layers of random copolymer, we have varied the specificity of block-wall
interactions for films of diblock copolymer confined between parallel walls. For highly …

Morphology of ultrathin supported diblock copolymer films: Theory and experiment

MJ Fasolka, P Banerjee, AM Mayes, G Pickett… - …, 2000 - ACS Publications
An analysis of the morphological behavior of substrate-supported diblock copolymer films for
thicknesses t below the equilibrium period L 0 of the copolymer is presented. Substrate …

Defectivity in laterally confined lamella-forming diblock copolymers: thermodynamic and kinetic aspects

H Takahashi, N Laachi, KT Delaney, SM Hur… - …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We use self-consistent field theory (SCFT) to study the directed self-assembly of laterally
confined diblock copolymers. In this study, we focus on systems in which the self-assembled …