Shearing with solvent vapor annealing on block copolymer thin films for templates with macroscopically aligned nanodomains

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pp. 455302
Author(s):  
Heejung Kang ◽  
Kyungtae Kim ◽  
Byeong-Hyeok Sohn
2015 ◽  
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pp. 3057-3065 ◽  
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Michelle A. Chavis ◽  
Detlef-M. Smilgies ◽  
Ulrich B. Wiesner ◽  
Christopher K. Ober

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Cheng ◽  
Alexander Böker ◽  
Larisa Tsarkova

Solvent vapor annealing is as an effective and versatile alternative to thermal annealing to equilibrate and control the assembly of polymer chains in thin films. Here, we present scientific and practical aspects of the solvent vapor annealing method, including the discussion of such factors as non-equilibrium conformational states and chain dynamics in thin films in the presence of solvent. Homopolymer and block copolymer films have been used in model studies to evaluate the robustness and the reproducibility of the solvent vapor processing, as well as to assess polymer-solvent interactions under confinement. Advantages of utilizing a well-controlled solvent vapor environment, including practically interesting regimes of weakly saturated vapor leading to poorly swollen states, are discussed. Special focus is given to dual temperature control over the set-up instrumentation and to the potential of solvo-thermal annealing. The evaluated insights into annealing dynamics derived from the studies on block copolymer films can be applied to improve the processing of thin films of crystalline and conjugated polymers as well as polymer composite in confined geometries.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (116) ◽  
pp. 95840-95846 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Barandiaran ◽  
G. Kortaberria

In this work hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposites with magnetic properties, based on a PS-b-P4VP block copolymer and Fe2O3 maghemite nanoparticles have been prepared.


2013 ◽  
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pp. 273-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Gu ◽  
Ilja Gunkel ◽  
Alexander Hexemer ◽  
Weiyin Gu ◽  
Thomas P. Russell

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 80-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorthe Posselt ◽  
Jianqi Zhang ◽  
Detlef-M. Smilgies ◽  
Anatoly V. Berezkin ◽  
Igor I. Potemkin ◽  
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2015 ◽  
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pp. 3794-3805 ◽  
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A. F. Hannon ◽  
W. Bai ◽  
A. Alexander-Katz ◽  
C. A. Ross

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pp. 1795-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Gu ◽  
Ilja Gunkel ◽  
Alexander Hexemer ◽  
Thomas P. Russell

Micromachines ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Nelson ◽  
Chloe Drapes ◽  
Meagan Grant ◽  
Ryan Gnabasik ◽  
Jeffrey Wong ◽  
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