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A shear stabilized biaxial texture in a lamellar block copolymer

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OSTI ID:468798
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  1. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Block copolymers spontaneously self-assemble into a variety of morphologies. Recent studies have produced a biaxial texture in poly(styrene-b-ethylene propylene), SEP, diblock copolymers by applying oscillatory shear. This biaxial texture consists of {open_quotes}parallel{close_quotes} lamellae (normal to lamellae aligned perpendicular to shearing surfaces) and {open_quotes}transverse{close_quotes} lamellae (normal to lamellae aligned parallel to shearing direction) according to small-angle X-ray scattering, SAXS. The present study has determined how these two populations of lamellae are arranged and how they relax upon quiescent annealing by examining the superstructure via FE-SEM.
OSTI ID:
468798
Report Number(s):
CONF-960877--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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