Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers

Michelle K Gaines; Steven D Smith; Jon Samseth; Michael R Bockstaller; Russell B Thompson; Kim Ã Rasmussen; Richard J Spontak

doi:10.1039/b805540h

Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers

Soft Matter. 2008 Jul 16;4(8):1609-1612. doi: 10.1039/b805540h.

Authors

Michelle K Gaines¹, Steven D Smith², Jon Samseth³, Michael R Bockstaller⁴, Russell B Thompson⁵, Kim Ã Rasmussen⁶, Richard J Spontak⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
² Miami Valley Innovation Center, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH 45061, USA.
³ Department of Process Technology, SINTEF Materials & Chemistry, N-7465 Trondheim and Akershus University College, N-2001, Lillestrøm, Norway.
⁴ Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.
⁶ Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
⁷ Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA and Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

PMID: 32907152
DOI: 10.1039/b805540h

Abstract

Although block copolymer motifs have received considerable attention as supramolecular templates for inorganic nanoparticles, experimental observations of a nanostructured diblock copolymer containing inorganic nanoparticles-supported by theoretical trends predicted from a hybrid self-consistent field/density functional theory-confirm that nanoparticle size and selectivity can likewise stabilize the copolymer nanostructure by increasing its order-disorder transition temperature.