TY - GEN
T1 - Probing the self-organization kinetics in block copolymer films
AU - Smilgies, D. M.
AU - Li, Ruipeng
AU - Di, Zhenyu
AU - Darko, Charles
AU - Papadakis, Christine M.
AU - Posselt, Dorthe
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Solvent annealing [1-3] has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to thermal annealing of block copolymer (BCP) thin films and nanocomposites. Taking a more general point of view, solvent treatment procedures, employing the selectivity of the solvents towards the different blocks, can produce new structures [4], and provide fascinating insights into the swelling kinetics and instabilities in such self-assembled and oriented thin films [5]. Taking a lamellar polystyrene-polybutadiene (PS-b-PB) film right from the spin coater into an in-situ vapor cell provided an intriguing trip through configuration space, with various lamellar re-orientations encountered during swelling.
AB - Solvent annealing [1-3] has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to thermal annealing of block copolymer (BCP) thin films and nanocomposites. Taking a more general point of view, solvent treatment procedures, employing the selectivity of the solvents towards the different blocks, can produce new structures [4], and provide fascinating insights into the swelling kinetics and instabilities in such self-assembled and oriented thin films [5]. Taking a lamellar polystyrene-polybutadiene (PS-b-PB) film right from the spin coater into an in-situ vapor cell provided an intriguing trip through configuration space, with various lamellar re-orientations encountered during swelling.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950478067
SN - 9781615677733
T3 - Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings
SP - 42
EP - 49
BT - Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering
T2 - 2008 MRS Fall Meeting
Y2 - 1 December 2008 through 5 December 2008
ER -