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Toth K, Bae S, Osuji CO, Yager KG, Doerk GS. Film Thickness and Composition Effects in Symmetric Ternary Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Blend Films: Domain Spacing and Orientation. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kristof Toth
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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Bayomi RAH, Aoki T, Sasaki S, Sakurai S. Regular ordering of spherical microdomains in dewetted monolayer islands induced by thermal annealing of spin-coated ultrathin films of a triblock copolymer. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:7396-7407. [PMID: 34318868 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00699a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
We report here spontaneous dewetting of a spin-coated, ultra-thin film of a sphere-forming block copolymer (BCP) upon thermal annealing, and that the dewetting resulted in the formation of plateau-shaped islands with a constant thickness consistent with the thickness of a monolayer, in which the spherical microdomains are regularly ordered two-dimensionally in a deformed hexagonal lattice. Thus, the spontaneous dewetting was ascribed to a mismatch between the initial spin-coated film thickness with respect to the monolayer thickness. Such dewetting of sphere-forming BCPs is considered to be deterministic compared to the cases of lamella- and cylinder-forming BCPs, as incommensuration in thickness is avoided by attaining perpendicular orientation without dewetting. We further quantitatively examined the ordering regularity of spherical microdomains in the dewetted monolayer islands to clarify the effect of confinement on sphere ordering. The degree of deformation of the hexagonal lattice was found to have an increasing tendency as a function of the degree of the deformation of the dewetted islands (the island shape), irrespective of the size of the island. Namely, islands with almost round shapes exhibit a well-ordered arrangement of the spherical microdomains in a perfect hexagonal lattice. Another notable finding is that the regular ordering of the spherical microdomains was found to be spoiled in the vicinity of the edge of the island. In other words, the spherical microdomains were well-ordered in a hexagonal lattice far from the edge of the island, while they were not regularly ordered in the vicinity of the edge, which may be due to mismatch between the curvature of the island's perimeter and the polygonal shape of ordered sphere grains.
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- Rasha Ahmed Hanafy Bayomi
- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. and Department of Apparel Design and Technology, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Orman, Giza 12111, Egypt
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
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- Department of Biobased Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan. and Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam 781-039, India
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Jung FA, Berezkin AV, Tejsner TB, Posselt D, Smilgies D, Papadakis CM. Solvent Vapor Annealing of a Diblock Copolymer Thin Film with a Nonselective and a Selective Solvent: Importance of Pathway for the Morphological Changes. Macromol Rapid Commun 2020; 41:e2000150. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.202000150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Florian A. Jung
- Technische Universität München Physik‐Department Physik der weichen Materie James‐Franck‐Str. 1 Garching 85748 Germany
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- Technische Universität München Physik‐Department Physik der weichen Materie James‐Franck‐Str. 1 Garching 85748 Germany
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- IMFUFA Department of Science and Environment Roskilde University P.O. Box 260 Roskilde 4000 Denmark
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- IMFUFA Department of Science and Environment Roskilde University P.O. Box 260 Roskilde 4000 Denmark
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- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) Wilson Laboratory Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Technische Universität München Physik‐Department Physik der weichen Materie James‐Franck‐Str. 1 Garching 85748 Germany
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Hydrophobicity enhancement of polyurethanes by attaching fluorinated end blocks via ATRP and correlation between surface properties and self-assembly nature. POLYMER 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Hanafy Bayomi RA, Aoki T, Shimojima T, Takagi H, Shimizu N, Igarashi N, Sasaki S, Sakurai S. Structural analyses of sphere- and cylinder-forming triblock copolymer thin films near the free surface by atomic force microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering. POLYMER 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2018.05.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Coric M, Saxena N, Pflüger M, Müller-Buschbaum P, Krumrey M, Herzig EM. Resonant Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering at the Sulfur K-Edge for Material-Specific Investigation of Thin-Film Nanostructures. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:3081-3086. [PMID: 29767524 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b01111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Scattering techniques are a powerful tool for probing thin-film nanomorphologies but often require additional characterization by other methods. We applied the well-established grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) technique for a selection of energies around the absorption edge of sulfur to exploit the resonance effect (grazing incidence resonant tender X-ray scattering, GIR-TeXS) of the sulfur atoms within a poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl):phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PC61BM) sample to gain information about the composition of the film morphology. With this approach, it is possible not only to identify structures within the investigated thin film but also to link them to a particular material combination.
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- Mihael Coric
- Munich School of Engineering, Herzig Group , Technische Universität München , Lichtenbergstr. 4a , 85748 Garching , Germany
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- Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien , Technische Universität München , James-Franck-Str. 1 , 85748 Garching , Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) , Abbestraße 2-12 , 10587 Berlin , Germany
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- Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien , Technische Universität München , James-Franck-Str. 1 , 85748 Garching , Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) , Abbestraße 2-12 , 10587 Berlin , Germany
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- Munich School of Engineering, Herzig Group , Technische Universität München , Lichtenbergstr. 4a , 85748 Garching , Germany
- Physikalisches Institut, Dynamik und Strukturbildung - Herzig Group , Universität Bayreuth , Universitätsstr. 30 , 95447 Bayreuth , Germany
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OGAWA H, TSUJIOKA K, TAKENAKA M, KAMITANI K, SUGIYAMA T, KANAYA T, TAKAHARA A. Depth-Dependent Structural Analyses in PS- b-P2VP Thin Films as Revealed by Grazing Incidence Small Angle Scattering in the Tender Energy Region. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU 2017. [DOI: 10.1295/koron.2016-0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Hiroki OGAWA
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
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- Research Center for Synchrotron Light Applications, Kyushu University
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- Institute for Material Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University
- Research Center for Synchrotron Light Applications, Kyushu University
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Block copolymer thin films: Characterizing nanostructure evolution with in situ X-ray and neutron scattering. POLYMER 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2016.06.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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