Chemically tailored block copolymers for highly reliable sub-10-nm patterns by directed self-assembly. Nature Communications, 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49839-0 ...

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

The Block Copolymer Database (BCDB) is a platform that allows users to search, submit, visualize, benchmark, and download experimental phase measurements and their associated characterization ...

The copolymer then self-assembled into the plumber’s nightmare structure when the researchers altered the temperature of the system. ‘This indicates that the [plumber’s nightmare to gyroid phase] ...

Jun 28, 2023 Next-generation memory storage with novel block copolymer structures (Nanowerk Spotlight) Block copolymers – plastics capable of forming a variety of minuscule, structured patterns – are ...

FIGURE 2. Theoretical phase diagram of diblock copolymer melts calculated by using the SCFT. The figure is reprinted with permission from Xu et al. (2020), copyright 2020, AIP Publishing. In general, ...

The Metropolis algorithm was used to generate new configurations from an arbitrary initial condition. Thermal equilibrium was achieved in about 500,000 MC steps. The simulations allowed the ...

“For the rubber in shoes, you want one phase; to make a membrane, you want a different one.” Only about five phases have been discovered in the simplest block copolymers.

New phase in block copolymers discovered Date: July 30, 2019 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara Summary: All matter consists of one or more phases -- regions of space with uniform ...

Researchers introduced a novel self-neutralization concept by designing molecular architecture of a block copolymer to develop vertically oriented lamellar or cylindrical nanodomains without pre- or ...