What is Block Copolymer Lithography? Block copolymer lithography is a nanofabrication technique that utilizes the self-assembly properties of block copolymers to create ordered nanostructures. Block ...

In an inverse tapered block copolymer, the opposite occurs (see figure). Tapering the interface is thought to reduce the "penalty" of mixing between the two very different blocks. The result is a ...

New polymer materials under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory could enable safer, more stable batteries needed for electric vehicles and grid energy storage. Polymers are promising ...

With blazing speed and seemingly limitless digital memory, the personal computers of the early 1990s rocketed past those that ranked as state-of-the-art just a couple of years earlier. Within a few ...

A combination of self-assembly and jet printing can be used to create block copolymer films with complex structures and tunable periodicities across a large substrate. Block copolymer nanolithography ...

The development hinged on chemical engineering and materials science professor Kechun Zhang and postdoctoral associate Mingyong Xiong first designing a biosynthetic route to make the six-membered ring ...

A recently developed block copolymer could help push the limits of integration and miniaturization in semiconductor manufacturing, report scientists. Chemically tailored for reliable directed ...

A technical paper titled “Chemically tailored block copolymers for highly reliable sub-10-nm patterns by directed self-assembly” was published by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tokyo ...

Bottlebrush block copolymers enable the assembly of large, periodic structures, reducing entanglements and speeding up assembly for applications in energy, catalysis, optics, drug delivery, and more!

Intellectual Merits of Proposed Activities The goal of this project is to create new polymeric materials for membrane applications, where functionality depends on the assembly of ordered, periodic ...