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Control of 10 nm scale cylinder orientation in self-organized sugar-based block copolymer thin films
Issei Otsuka1, Salomé Tallegas, Yoko Sakai
1Centre de Recherches sur Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV, UPR-CNRS 5301), affiliated with Université Joseph Fourier and member of the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Grenoble (ICMG, FR-CNRS 2607), BP53, 38041 Grenoble, France.
Nanoscale
|February 28, 2013
Abstract:
The present paper describes the orientational control of 10 nm scale cylinders in sugar-based block copolymer thin films by simply varying the composition of the annealing co-solvent. The affinity of the block copolymer to the solvent vapor could be systematically adjusted in this way.
