A Simple Route to Highly Oriented and Ordered Nanoporous Block Copolymer Templates

Park, Soojin and Wang, Jia-Yu and Kim, Bokyung and Xu, Ji and Russell, Thomas P.. (2008) A Simple Route to Highly Oriented and Ordered Nanoporous Block Copolymer Templates. ACS Nano, 2 (4). pp. 766-772. ISSN 1936-0851

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Abstract

Controlling the orientation and lateral ordering of the block copolymer microdomains is essential to their use as templates and scaffolds for the fabrication of nanostructured materials. In addition, a process must be robust, simple to implement, and rapid, and should not introduce disruptive processing steps that would impede their use. Here, we describe thin films of poly(styrene-b-4-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P4VP) diblock copolymers, spin-coated from mixed solvents that show highly oriented, cylindrical microdomains with a high degree of order on a wide range of substrates, including silicon oxide, polystyrene, germanium, polyimide, and poly(butylene terephthalate). In addition, the preferential solvation of the P4VP block with an alcohol caused a surface reconstruction that resulted in the formation of a nanoporous film upon drying. The evaporation of gold onto the reconstructed films produced thermally stable and reactive ion etching resistant films.

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Additional Information: Reprinted with permission from "A Simple Route to Highly Oriented and Ordered Nanoporous Block Copolymer Templates", T Russell et al., ACS nano, 2(4), pg 766-772. Copyright 2008 American Chemical Society.
InterNano Taxonomy: Nanomanufacturing Processes > Nanopatterning/Lithography > Block copolymer lithography
Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanostructured Materials > Block copolymers
Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanocomposites > Thin films
Nanomanufacturing Characterization Techniques
Collections: Nanomanufacturing Research Collection > Nanomanufacturing Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers > Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
Nanomanufacturing Research Collection
Depositing User: Moureen Kemei
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2010 23:01
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2011 21:29
URI: http://eprints.internano.org/id/eprint/281

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