Phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers: Progress and opportunities

J Xie, AC Shi - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers has been examined extensively
in the past decades. Experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that mixing …

Design and properties of supramolecular polymer gels

A Noro, M Hayashi, Y Matsushita - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular polymer gels are precisely designed physical gels brought together by
reversible secondary interactions to form three dimensional networks of melt …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Block PolymersPure Potential

CM Bates, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Block polymers have undergone extraordinary evolution since their inception more than 60
years ago, maturing from simple surfactants to an expansive class of macromolecules …

Membranes with highly ordered straight nanopores by selective swelling of fast perpendicularly aligned block copolymers

J Yin, X Yao, JY Liou, W Sun, YS Sun, Y Wang - ACS nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
Membranes with uniform, straight nanopores have important applications in diverse fields,
but their application is limited by the lack of efficient producing methods with high …

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 …

End groups of functionalized siloxane oligomers direct block-copolymeric or liquid-crystalline self-assembly behavior

RH Zha, BFM de Waal, M Lutz… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Monodisperse oligodimethylsiloxanes end-functionalized with the hydrogen-bonding
ureidopyrimidinone (UPy) motif undergo phase separation between their aromatic end …

Directed Self‐Assembly of Liquid‐Crystalline Molecular Building Blocks for Sub‐5 nm Nanopatterning

K Nickmans, APHJ Schenning - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The thin‐film directed self‐assembly of molecular building blocks into oriented nanostructure
arrays enables next‐generation lithography at the sub‐5 nm scale. Currently, the fabrication …

Adhesion and detachment mechanisms between polymer and solid substrate surfaces: using polystyrene–mica as a model system

H Zeng, J Huang, Y Tian, L Li, MV Tirrell… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The adhesion and detachment of polymer and solid substrate surfaces play important roles
in many engineering applications such as for designing adhesives, biomedical adhesives …

All-organic cross-linked polysiloxane-aromatic thiourea dielectric films for electrical energy storage application

Y Liu, J Chen, X Jiang, P Jiang… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The development of high-power-density energy storage devices and systems calls for high-
dielectric-constant (high-k) polymer films with low dielectric loss. Aromatic polythiourea …

Robust control of microdomain orientation in thin films of block copolymers by zone casting

C Tang, W Wu, DM Smilgies… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers with chemically immiscible segments exhibit a variety of microphase-
separated nanostructures on the scale of 10–100 nm. Controlling the orientation of these …