Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Priming self-assembly pathways by stacking block copolymers

  • Sebastian T. Russell,
  • Suwon Bae,
  • Ashwanth Subramanian,
  • Nikhil Tiwale,
  • Gregory Doerk,
  • Chang-Yong Nam,
  • Masafumi Fukuto,
  • Kevin G. Yager

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34729-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Self-assembly of block-copolymers yields nanoscale structures in a facile way, but the diversity of structures is limited. Here, the authors demonstrate how block copolymer layering can be used to access new non-equilibrium morphologies.