Templated self‐assembly of block copolymers: top‐down helps bottom‐up

JY Cheng, CA Ross, HI Smith… - Advanced Materials, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
One of the key challenges in nanotechnology is to control a self‐assembling system to
create a specific structure. Self‐organizing block copolymers offer a rich variety of periodic …

Multilayer block copolymer meshes by orthogonal self-assembly

A Tavakkoli KG, SM Nicaise, KR Gadelrab… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Continued scaling-down of lithographic-pattern feature sizes has brought templated self-
assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) into the forefront of nanofabrication research …

Nanostructure engineering by templated self-assembly of block copolymers

JY Cheng, AM Mayes, CA Ross - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
Self-assembling materials are the building blocks for bottom-up nanofabrication processes,
but many self-assembled nanostructures contain defects and lack sufficient long-range order …

Hierarchical nanostructures by sequential self‐assembly of styrene‐dimethylsiloxane block copolymers of different periods

JG Son, AF Hannon, KW Gotrik… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Self-assembly of block copolymers can form a variety of periodic and aperiodic patterns with
smaller feature sizes than can be achieved using conventional photolithography …

Templated self‐assembly of block copolymers: effect of substrate topography

JY Cheng, CA Ross, EL Thomas, HI Smith… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Topographical confinement is used to template the formation of nanoscale domains in a self‐
assembled block copolymer film. The topographical template controls the row spacings and …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography: fabrication of isolated features and essential integrated circuit geometries

MP Stoykovich, H Kang, KC Daoulas, G Liu, CC Liu… - Acs Nano, 2007 - ACS Publications
Self-assembling block copolymers are of interest for nanomanufacturing due to the ability to
realize sub-100 nm dimensions, thermodynamic control over the size and uniformity and …

Graphoepitaxy of self-assembled block copolymers on two-dimensional periodic patterned templates

I Bita, JKW Yang, YS Jung, CA Ross, EL Thomas… - Science, 2008 - science.org
Self-assembling materials are the building blocks of bottom-up nanofabrication processes,
but they need to be templated to impose long-range order and eliminate defects. In this …

Templated self-assembly of square symmetry arrays from an ABC triblock terpolymer

VP Chuang, J Gwyther, RA Mickiewicz, I Manners… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly provides the ability to create well-controlled nanostructures with electronic or
chemical functionality and enables the synthesis of a wide range of useful devices. Diblock …

Defects in the self-assembly of block copolymers and their relevance for directed self-assembly

W Li, M Müller - Annual review of chemical and biomolecular …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Block copolymer self-assembly provides a platform for fabricating dense, ordered
nanostructures by encoding information in the chemical architecture of multicomponent …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers in the extreme: guiding microdomains from the small to the large

K Koo, H Ahn, SW Kim, DY Ryu, TP Russell - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is emerging as a promising route for
numerous applications to generate templates and scaffolds for the fabrication of …