Nanoparticle‐Driven Orientation Transition and Soft‐Shear Alignment in Diblock Copolymer Films via Dynamic Thermal Gradient Field
Abstract
Sharp dynamic thermal gradient (∇T ≈ 45 °C mm−1) field‐driven assembly of cylinder‐forming block copolymer (c‐BCP) films filled with PS‐coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs; dNP ≈ 3.6 nm, φNP ≈ 0–0.1) is studied. The influence of increasing AuNP loading fraction on dispersion and assembly of AuNPs within c‐BCP (PS‐PMMA) films is investigated via both static and dynamic thermal gradient fields. With φNP increasing, a sharp transition from vertical to random in‐plane horizontal cylinder orientation is observed due to enrichment of AuNPs at the substrate side and favorable interaction of PMMA chains with gold cores. Furthermore, a detachable capping elastomer layer can self‐align these random oriented PMMA microdomains into unidirectional hybrid AuNP/c‐BCP nanolines, quantified with an alignment order parameter, S. image
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Sep 16, 2013
- Source ID
- 10.1002/marc.201300485
Entities
People
- Alamgir Karim
- Alei Dang
- Bulent Akgun
- Gurpreet Singh
- Lu Dai
- Michael R Bockstaller
- Ren Zhang
- Sushil Satija
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Boğaziçi University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- National Science Foundation
- University of Akron
- University of Maryland