Orientation Control of Block Copolymer Thin Films Placed on Ordered Nanoparticle Monolayers

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• 作者：Taehee Kim ; Sanghyuk Wooh ; Jeong Gon Son ; Kookheon Char
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October 22, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：46
• 期：20
• 页码：8144-8151
• 全文大小：797K
• 年卷期：v.46,no.20(October 22, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5835

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We investigate orientation and lateral ordering of poly(styrene-block-methyl methacrylate) (PS-b-PMMA) diblock copolymer (diBCP) thin films placed on ordered nanoparticle (NP) monolayers. The densely packed NP monolayers were prepared on silicon substrates with the Langmuir鈥揃lodgett (LB) deposition technique. The perpendicular domain orientation of BCP thin films is obtained on the ordered NP monolayers due to the nanoscale regular roughness which exerts the elastic deformation on the BCP nanodomains and suppresses the substrate-induced parallel orientation. The effect of BCP film thickness as well as the NP size on the orientation of BCP nanodomains was systematically investigated. We also demonstrate the defect-tolerant ordering of the perpendicular orientation of BCP thin films on the NP-vacant sites.