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Liquid Crystallinity in Block Copolymer Films for Controlling Polymeric Nanopatterns

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Ordered Polymeric Nanostructures at Surfaces

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We review thin-film morphologies of hybrid liquid-crystalline/amorphous block copolymers. Themicrophase separation of the blocks and the smectic liquid crystalline ordering within one of theblocks are treated systematically in terms of the interaction parameters. The competition of the“tandem” interactions in terms of length scales and of surface anchoring can be used advantageouslyto control the orientation of block interfaces for nanopatterning.

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Abbreviations

AFM:

atomic force microscopy

GIXD:

grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction

GISAXS:

grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray diffraction

LC:

liquid crystal(line)

ODT:

order-disorder transition

XR:

X-ray reflectivity

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Acknowledgments

The authors want to thank the members of the EU-POLYNANO network and Denitza Lambreva (AMOLF, Amsterdam) for fruitful discussions and cooperation over the past years. Gerard Wong and Daniel Sentenac are acknowledged for their contributions in the early stages. This work is supported in part by the European Community's Human Potential Programme under contract HPRN-CT-1999-00151 (POLYNANO) and is part of the research program of the “Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)”, which is financially supported by the “Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)”. Y. Séréro and M. Al-Hussein acknowledge financial support provided through POLYNANO.

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    Wim H. de Jeu, Yaëlle Séréro & Mahmoud Al-Hussein

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de Jeu, W.H., Séréro, Y., Al-Hussein, M. (2005). Liquid Crystallinity in Block Copolymer Films for Controlling Polymeric Nanopatterns. In: Vancso, G.J. (eds) Ordered Polymeric Nanostructures at Surfaces. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_006

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