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Preparation of long-range ordered nanostructures in semicrystalline diblock copolymer thin films using micromolding

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Long-range ordered nanostructures are prepared in the poly(styrene)-block-poly(ɛ-caprolactone) diblock copolymer thin films using micromolding. We evaluated the change in crystallinity based on grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction and proved that the crystallinity increased with the decrease of the mold size. This means that ordered nanostructures with atomic length scale order can be adjusted by tuning the mesoscale confinement. The inherent mechanism was the cooperation of geometric confinement, microphase structure and surface-induced ordering of PS-b-PCL in the melt, which paved the way for the subsequent crystal growth. These findings establish a route to promote the cost-effective nanofabrication by combining the mature microfabrication technique with the emerging directed self-assembly of block copolymers.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China

    Peng Zhang, Hai-ying Huang & Tian-bai He  (何天白)

  2. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, D-22607, Germany

    Peng Zhang, Shun Yu, Sarathlal K. Vayalil & Stephan V. Roth

  3. Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yu Chen

  4. Institute for Applied and Experimental Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, D-24118, Germany

    Christina Krywka

  5. Institute of Materials Research, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, D-21502, Geesthacht, Germany

    Christina Krywka

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21274148 and 21074135). The experimental setup at the Nanofocus Endstation of MiNaXS was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (projects BMBF 05KS7FK1 and 05K10FK3).

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Zhang, P., Huang, Hy., Chen, Y. et al. Preparation of long-range ordered nanostructures in semicrystalline diblock copolymer thin films using micromolding. Chin J Polym Sci 32, 1188–1198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-014-1506-x

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