Quo Vadis carbanionic polymerization?

K Ntetsikas, V Ladelta, S Bhaumik… - ACS Polymers …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Living anionic polymerization will soon celebrate 70 years of existence. This living
polymerization is considered the mother of all living and controlled/living polymerizations …

Solvent-assisted self-assembly of block copolymer thin films

P Pula, A Leniart, PW Majewski - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solvent-assisted block copolymer self-assembly is a compelling method for processing and
advancing practical applications of these materials due to the exceptional level of the control …

Synthesis, molecular characterization and self-assembly of (PS-b-PDMS) n type linear (n= 1, 2) and star (n= 3, 4) block copolymers

P Georgopanos, TY Lo, RM Ho, A Avgeropoulos - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Well-defined linear (n= 1, 2) and star (n= 3, 4) architecture [polystyrene-b-poly
(dimethylsiloxane)] n or (PS-b-PDMS) n block copolymers were synthesized by anionic …

Solvent Vapor Annealing of a Diblock Copolymer Thin Film with a Nonselective and a Selective Solvent: Importance of Pathway for the Morphological Changes

FA Jung, AV Berezkin, TB Tejsner… - Macromolecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diblock copolymer thin films of polystyrene‐block‐poly (dimethyl siloxane)(PS‐b‐PDMS)
featuring PDMS cylinders in a PS matrix are investigated during solvent vapor annealing …

Controlling Anti-Penetration Performance by Post-Grafting of Fluorinated Alkyl Chains onto Polystyrene-block-poly(vinyl methyl siloxane)

Z Zhang, K Chaudhuri, F Kaefer… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has been widely used as a surface coating material, which
has been reported to possess dynamic omniphobicity to a wide range of both polar and …

In situ tracking of composition and morphology of a diblock copolymer film with GISAXS during exchange of solvent vapors at elevated temperatures

AV Berezkin, F Jung, D Posselt… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solvothermal vapor annealing at elevated temperature is applied to a thin film from a
cylinder‐forming polystyrene‐block‐poly (dimethyl siloxane)(PS‐b‐PDMS) diblock …

Simultaneous in-film polymer synthesis and self-assembly for hierarchical nanopatterns

Z Qiang, SA Akolawala, M Wang - ACS Macro Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
A key requirement for practical applications of nanostructured block copolymer (BCP) self-
assembly is the ability to generate complex geometries including different shapes and …

Lab-on-a-chip device made by autohesion-bonded polymers

F Awaja, T Wong, B Arhatari - Biomedical microdevices, 2018 - Springer
Polymers have the obvious advantages of flexibility in design and cost effectiveness to
fabricate a lab-on-a-chip (LOC) device. Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) in particular is very …

Sub-5 nm structured films by hydrogen bonded siloxane liquid crystals and block copolymers

K Nickmans, RCP Verpaalen, JN Murphy… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the synthesis and characterization of a novel class of hydrogen-
bonding oligo (dimethylsiloxane)-based thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs), with which …

Self-Assembly of Low-Molecular-Weight Asymmetric Linear Triblock Terpolymers: How Low Can We Go?

C Miskaki, I Moutsios, GM Manesi, K Artopoiadis… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The synthesis of two (2) novel triblock terpolymers of the ABC type and one (1) of the BAC
type, where A, B and C are chemically different segments, such as polystyrene (PS), poly …