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Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 Years after the Staudinger Nobel Prize II pp 259–293Cite as

Design and Applications of Multiscale Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials Derived from Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

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Abstract

Block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly (SA) is a useful tool for designing materials with tunable nanostructure as well as controllable multiscale, hierarchical structure. A combination of BCP SA with inorganic materials results in functional hybrid materials with ordered structures down to the nanoscale, thereby exploiting both the advantageous features of structure tunability from BCP SA and functionality from inorganic materials. Rather than a comprehensive review of the entire field of hybrid materials, this overview summarizes a variety of BCP-derived synthetic approaches developed over the last 10–15 years, with emphasis on work by the Wiesner group at Cornell University on hybrid materials with structural characteristics on multiple length scales. This encompasses hybrids with thermodynamic equilibrium-type BCP nanostructures, controlled nonequilibrium-type structure formation processes leading to structural asymmetries, as well as formation of hierarchical BCP materials with control over nanoscale and macroscale structures. Besides the development of wet-chemical methodologies for their synthesis, this overview also features some promising first applications of such materials. Results suggest that BCP SA directed synthetic approaches may provide routes to cost-effective and large-scale materials fabrication potentially useful for both, new materials discovery and study of fundamental structure – property correlations as well as exploration of the materials in a number of today’s most pressing applications including water filtration and energy conversion and storage.

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Abbreviations

1D:

One dimensional

2D:

Two dimensional

3D:

Three dimensional

BCC:

Body-centered cubic

BCP:

Block copolymer

CASH:

Combined assembly by soft and hard

CPS:

Close-packed spheres, referring to face-centered or hexagonally close-packed spheres

DIS:

Disordered phase

GYR:

Gyroid

HEX:

Hexagonal cylinder

LAM:

Lamellar phases

NIPS:

Nonsolvent-induced phase separation

NiSi:

Nickel silicide

o-:

Oligomeric

PEO:

Poly(ethylene oxide)

PI:

Poly(isoprene)

PS:

Poly(styrene)

SA:

Self-assembly

SIM2PLE:

Spinodal-decomposition-induced macro and mesophase separation plus extraction by rinsing

SNIPS:

Self-assembly and nonsolvent-induced phase separation

ssDSSC:

Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell

TEM:

Transmission electron microscope

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Acknowledgements

This article is based on research over a period of about 15 years in the Wiesner group at the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Cornell University. The work would have been impossible without the help of an enormous number of very motivated, talented and enthusiastic students, postdocs, and collaborators at Cornell and beyond. Equally important, the work was enabled by a continuous stream of financial support, for which we would particularly like to thank the National Science Foundation via the Polymers Program within the Division of Materials Research (current grant DMR-1104773). We thank Joerg Werner for contributing to the lithium battery section.

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Hur, K., Wiesner, U. (2013). Design and Applications of Multiscale Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Materials Derived from Block Copolymer Self-Assembly. In: Percec, V. (eds) Hierarchical Macromolecular Structures: 60 Years after the Staudinger Nobel Prize II. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 262. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2013_246

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