An overview of materials with triply periodic minimal surfaces and related geometry: from biological structures to self‐assembled systems

L Han, S Che - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Triply periodic minimal surface structures and related geometries are widely identified in
many natural systems, such as biological membranes and biophotonic structures in butterfly …

Block copolymer self-assembly for nanophotonics

M Stefik, S Guldin, S Vignolini, U Wiesner… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to control and modulate the interaction of light with matter is crucial to achieve
desired optical properties including reflection, transmission, and selective polarization …

Block copolymers—designer soft materials

FS Bates, GH Fredrickson - Physics today, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
B lock copolymers are all around us, found in such products as upholstery foam, adhesive
tape and asphalt additives. This class of macromolecules is produced by joining two or more …

Polymer‐based photonic crystals

AC Edrington, AM Urbas, P DeRege… - Advanced …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In this report, we highlight the development of polymers as 1D photonic crystals and
subsequently place special emphasis on the activities in self‐assembled block copolymers …

Ordered network mesostructures in block polymer materials

AJ Meuler, MA Hillmyer, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
Block polymers are formed by the covalent union of two or more chemically distinct
homopolymers. These composite macromolecules self-assemble into a variety of ordered …

Orthorhombic Network in Triblock and Diblock Copolymer Melts

CA Tyler, DC Morse - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
The phase behavior of ABC triblock and AB diblock copolymer melts is investigated by self-
consistent field theory, while allowing for (among other candidates) the orthorhombic F ddd …

A Noncubic Triply Periodic Network Morphology in Poly(isoprene-b-styrene-b-ethylene oxide) Triblock Copolymers

TS Bailey, CM Hardy, TH Epps, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2002 - ACS Publications
We present characterization data for linear poly (isoprene-b-styrene-b-ethylene oxide)(PI−
PS− PEO) triblock copolymers containing equal volume fractions of PI and PS (f PI= f PS) …

Core−Shell Gyroid Morphology in a Poly(isoprene-block-styrene-block-dimethylsiloxane) Triblock Copolymer

TA Shefelbine, ME Vigild, MW Matsen… - Journal of the …, 1999 - ACS Publications
We report a new morphology in a poly (isoprene-block-styrene-block-dimethylsiloxane) ABC
triblock copolymer. The most probable symmetry of the morphology (Ia 3̄ d) was …

Discovering new ordered phases of block copolymers

Y Bohbot-Raviv, ZG Wang - Physical review letters, 2000 - APS
We propose a new and general method for discovering novel ordered phases of block
copolymer melts. The method involves minimizing a free energy functional in an arbitrary …

SCFT study of nonfrustrated ABC triblock copolymer melts

CA Tyler, J Qin, FS Bates, DC Morse - Macromolecules, 2007 - ACS Publications
The phase behavior of ABC triblock copolymer melts is studied by self-consistent-field theory
(SCFT). We focus on “nonfrustrated” triblocks, in which the Flory− Huggins interaction …