Membrane surface functionalization with imidazole derivatives to benefit dye removal and fouling resistance in forward osmosis

J Guo, Q Yang, QW Meng, CH Lau… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water contaminated with low concentrations of pollutants is more difficult to clean up than
that with high pollutant content levels. Membrane separation provides a solution for …

Control of the Orientation of Symmetric Poly(styrene)-block-poly(d,l-lactide) Block Copolymers Using Statistical Copolymers of Dissimilar Composition

I Keen, A Yu, HH Cheng, KS Jack, TM Nicholson… - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
The interactions of block copolymers with surfaces can be controlled by coating those
surfaces with appropriate statistical copolymers. Usually, a statistical copolymer comprised …

Ligand switch in photoinduced copper-mediated polymerization: synthesis of methacrylate–acrylate block copolymers

YM Chuang, B Wenn, S Gielen, A Ethirajan… - Polymer …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of photo-induced copper-mediated radical polymerization (photoCMP) to
synthesize mixed acrylate/methacrylate (methyl acrylate, MA and methyl methacrylate, MMA) …

Perturbation of the experimental phase diagram of a diblock copolymer by blending with an ionic liquid

TM Bennett, KS Jack, KJ Thurecht, I Blakey - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Understanding the phase behavior of block copolymer/ionic liquid mixtures is an important
step toward their implementation in commercial devices. Here we report a high throughput …

Integrated bottom-up and top-down soft lithographies and microfabrication approaches to multifunctional polymers

L Persano, A Camposeo, D Pisignano - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic multifunctional materials are becoming increasingly relevant to many fields of
technology. Bottom-up assembly processes to give well-defined supramolecular …

Behavior of lamellar forming block copolymers under nanoconfinement: implications for topography directed self-assembly of sub-10 nm structures

I Keen, HH Cheng, A Yu, KS Jack, TR Younkin… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Directed self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is a promising technique for the
nanofabrication of structures with dimensions smaller than what can be achieved by current …

Can ionic liquid additives be used to extend the scope of poly (styrene)-block-poly (methyl methacrylate) for directed self-assembly?

TM Bennett, K Pei, HH Cheng… - Journal of Micro …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Directed self-assembly (DSA) is a promising approach for extending conventional
lithographic techniques by being able to print features with critical dimensions under 10 nm …

Pattern shrink methods

PD Hustad, JK Park, JW Sung, JH Park - US Patent 9,448,483, 2016 - Google Patents
Pattern shrink methods comprise:(a) providing a semiconductor substrate comprising one or
more layers to be patterned;(b) providing a resist pattern over the one or more layers to be …

Assembly of nanostructured films with hydrophobic subcompartments via continuous assembly of polymers

EHH Wong, MP van Koeverden, E Nam… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The generation of nanoscale polymer films using complex, hierarchically structured (bio)
macromolecular architectures has important implications in the field of materials science …

Simulation study of the effect of molar mass dispersity on domain interfacial roughness in lamellae forming block copolymers for directed self-assembly

AJ Peters, RA Lawson, BD Nation, PJ Ludovice… - …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A coarse-grained molecular dynamics model was used to study the thin film self-assembly
and resulting pattern properties of block copolymer (BCP) systems with various molar mass …