Block copolymer-nanoparticle hybrid self-assembly

TN Hoheisel, K Hur, UB Wiesner - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Polymer-inorganic hybrid materials provide exciting opportunities as they may display
favorable properties from both constituents that are desired in applications including …

The Promise of Soft‐Matter‐Enabled Quantum Materials

RP Thedford, F Yu, WRT Tait, K Shastri… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of quantum materials has experienced rapid growth over the past decade, driven
by exciting new discoveries with immense transformative potential. Traditional synthetic …

Direct Conversion of Liquid Organic Precursor into 3D Laser‐Induced Graphene Materials

W Yu, W Zhao, S Wang, Q Chen, X Liu - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Among the different states of matter, liquids have particular advantages in terms of easy
handling and recycling, which has been manifested in various chemosynthetic reactions, but …

Free-standing laser-induced graphene films for high-performance electromagnetic interference shielding

W Yu, Y Peng, L Cao, W Zhao, X Liu - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Although laser-induced graphene (LIG) has great advantages in the cost and manufacturing
process, it has been seldom reported in the field of electromagnetic interference (EMI) …

Transient laser heating induced hierarchical porous structures from block copolymer–directed self-assembly

KW Tan, B Jung, JG Werner, ER Rhoades… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Development of rapid processes combining hierarchical self-assembly with mesoscopic
shape control has remained a challenge. This is particularly true for high-surface-area …

Laser‐Printed All‐Carbon Responsive Material and Soft Robot

W Yu, W Zhao, X Zhu, M Li, X Yi, X Liu - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Responsive materials and actuators are the basis for the development of various leading‐
edge technologies but have so far mostly been designed based on polymers, incurring key …

Block copolymer self-assembly directed hierarchically structured materials from nonequilibrium transient laser heating

KW Tan, U Wiesner - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
We highlight two recent approaches operating far from equilibrium for the synthesis of
hierarchical porous thin film materials by coupling block copolymer-directed self-assembly …

Block copolymer self-assembly-directed and transient laser heating-enabled nanostructures toward phononic and photonic quantum materials

F Yu, Q Zhang, RP Thedford, A Singer, DM Smilgies… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) periodic ordering of silicon (Si), an inorganic semiconductor, on the
mesoscale was achieved by combining block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly (SA) based …

Ultrafast self-assembly of sub-10 nm block copolymer nanostructures by solvent-free high-temperature laser annealing

J Jiang, AG Jacobs, B Wenning, C Liedel… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Laser spike annealing was applied to PS-b-PDMS diblock copolymers to induce short-time
(millisecond time scale), high-temperature (300 to 700° C) microphase segregation and …

Photothermally directed assembly of block copolymers

SR Nowak, KG Yager - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Block copolymers self‐assemble into nanoscale morphologies, spontaneously ordering
under thermal annealing conditions owing to the chemical incompatibility between the …