Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in Thin Films Swollen-Rich in Solvent Vapors

In this study we have employed a polymer processing method based on solvent vapor annealing in order to condense relatively large amounts of solvent vapors onto thin films of block copolymers and thus to promote their self-assembly into ordered nanostructures. As revealed by the atomic force microsc...

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Autores principales: Babutan, Iulia, Todor-Boer, Otto, Atanase, Leonard Ionut, Vulpoi, Adriana, Botiz, Ioan
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10145245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112047
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15081900
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author Babutan, Iulia
Todor-Boer, Otto
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description In this study we have employed a polymer processing method based on solvent vapor annealing in order to condense relatively large amounts of solvent vapors onto thin films of block copolymers and thus to promote their self-assembly into ordered nanostructures. As revealed by the atomic force microscopy, a periodic lamellar morphology of poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-polybutadiene and an ordered morphology comprised of hexagonally-packed structures made of poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-poly(cyclohexyl methacrylate) were both successfully generated on solid substrates for the first time.
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spelling pubmed-101452452023-04-29 Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in Thin Films Swollen-Rich in Solvent Vapors Babutan, Iulia Todor-Boer, Otto Atanase, Leonard Ionut Vulpoi, Adriana Botiz, Ioan Polymers (Basel) Article In this study we have employed a polymer processing method based on solvent vapor annealing in order to condense relatively large amounts of solvent vapors onto thin films of block copolymers and thus to promote their self-assembly into ordered nanostructures. As revealed by the atomic force microscopy, a periodic lamellar morphology of poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-polybutadiene and an ordered morphology comprised of hexagonally-packed structures made of poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-poly(cyclohexyl methacrylate) were both successfully generated on solid substrates for the first time. MDPI 2023-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10145245/ /pubmed/37112047 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15081900 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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