Control of 10 nm scale cylinder orientation in self-organized sugar-based block copolymer thin films

Issei Otsuka; Salomé Tallegas; Yoko Sakai; Cyrille Rochas; Sami Halila; Sébastien Fort; Ahmad Bsiesy; Thierry Baron; Redouane Borsali

doi:10.1039/c3nr00332a

Control of 10 nm scale cylinder orientation in self-organized sugar-based block copolymer thin films

Nanoscale. 2013 Apr 7;5(7):2637-41. doi: 10.1039/c3nr00332a.

Authors

Issei Otsuka¹, Salomé Tallegas, Yoko Sakai, Cyrille Rochas, Sami Halila, Sébastien Fort, Ahmad Bsiesy, Thierry Baron, Redouane Borsali

Affiliation

¹ Centre 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.

PMID: 23443358
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr00332a

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't