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Sun D. Hierarchical double periodic structures formed by the linear multiblock copolymers A(BA)2C and (BA)3C with compositions of the A, B and C blocks in ratio 1:1:2. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-023-03450-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Liang R, Xue Y, Fu X, Le AN, Song Q, Qiang Y, Xie Q, Dong R, Sun Z, Osuji CO, Johnson JA, Li W, Zhong M. Hierarchically engineered nanostructures from compositionally anisotropic molecular building blocks. NATURE MATERIALS 2022; 21:1434-1440. [PMID: 36357688 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01393-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
The inability to synthesize hierarchical structures with independently tailored nanoscale and mesoscale features limits the discovery of next-generation multifunctional materials. Here we present a predictable molecular self-assembly strategy to craft nanostructured materials with a variety of phase-in-phase hierarchical morphologies. The compositionally anisotropic building blocks employed in the assembly process are formed by multicomponent graft block copolymers containing sequence-defined side chains. The judicious design of various structural parameters in the graft block copolymers enables broadly tunable compositions, morphologies and lattice parameters across the nanoscale and mesoscale in the assembled structures. Our strategy introduces advanced design principles for the efficient creation of complex hierarchical structures and provides a facile synthetic platform to access nanomaterials with multiple precisely integrated functionalities.
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- Ruiqi Liang
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
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Hong W, Lin J, Tian X, Wang L. Distinct Viscoelasticity of Hierarchical Nanostructures Self-Assembled from Multiblock Copolymers. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Wei Hong
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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Xu Y, Hu W. Formation of Multicontinuous 3D Network Nanostructures with Increased Complexity in ABC-Type Block Copolymers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:11324-11331. [PMID: 32842745 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
The multicontinuous network nature of polymer nanostructures provides them with many opportunities to fabricate multifunctional materials with specific mechanical, transport, optical, and other novel properties. In this paper, we generate an effective design principle to craft a series of multicontinuous network structures with controllable channels, including multicontinuous gyroid and O70 network morphologies via the self-assembly of ABC-type block copolymers. Importantly, we achieve a much wider (∼25%) compositional range than that of AB diblock copolymers (∼3%), which would increase the widespread application of these multicontinuous polymer networks. Even for the simplest ABC linear system, this method is valid for generating multicontinuous network structures, where gyroids and O70 are found to possess large phase regions. This finding can theoretically explain the experimental observation of gyroid and O70 phases. We believe that our proposed design principle along with the calculated phase diagram provides a compelling panacea for the fabrication of multicontinuous 3D network nanostructures.
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- Yuci Xu
- Faculty of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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- Faculty of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China
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Kriksin Y, Erukhimovich I, ten Brinke G. Self-Consistent Field Theory within Hildebrand Approximation: Microphase Separation in Gradient Copolymers. MACROMOL THEOR SIMUL 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/mats.201600018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Yury Kriksin
- Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of RAS; Miusskaya sq.4 125047 Moscow Russia
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- A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of RAS; Vavilova St. 28 119991 GSP-1 Moscow Russia
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry and Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials; University of Groningen; Nijenborgh 4 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands
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