Self-assembly of a silicon-containing side-chain liquid crystalline block copolymer in bulk and in thin films: kinetic pathway of a cylinder to sphere transition

The self-assembly of a high-χ silicon-containing side-chain liquid crystalline block copolymer (LC BCP) in bulk and in thin films is reported, and the structural transition process from the hexagonally packed cylinder (HEX) to the body-centered cubic structure (BCC) in thin films was examined by bot...

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Main Authors: Liao, Fen, Ran, Rong, Yager, Kevin G., Shi, Lingying, Cheng, Li-Chen, Lee, Sangho, Ross, Caroline A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120168
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