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Title: Rapid self-assembly of block copolymers to photonic crystals

Abstract

The invention provides a class of copolymers having useful properties, including brush block copolymers, wedge-type block copolymers and hybrid wedge and polymer block copolymers. In an embodiment, for example, block copolymers of the invention incorporate chemically different blocks comprising polymer size chain groups and/or wedge groups that significantly inhibit chain entanglement, thereby enhancing molecular self-assembly processes for generating a range of supramolecular structures, such as periodic nanostructures and microstructures. The present invention also provides useful methods of making and using copolymers, including block copolymers.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1260251
Patent Number(s):
9382387
Application Number:
13/800,646
Assignee:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Pasadena, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C08 - ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-05ER46218
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2013 Mar 13
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Xia, Yan, Sveinbjornsson, Benjamin R, Grubbs, Robert H, Weitekamp, Raymond, Miyake, Garret M, Atwater, Harry A, Piunova, Victoria, Daeffler, Christopher Scot, Hong, Sung Woo, Gu, Weiyin, and Russell, Thomas P. Rapid self-assembly of block copolymers to photonic crystals. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Xia, Yan, Sveinbjornsson, Benjamin R, Grubbs, Robert H, Weitekamp, Raymond, Miyake, Garret M, Atwater, Harry A, Piunova, Victoria, Daeffler, Christopher Scot, Hong, Sung Woo, Gu, Weiyin, & Russell, Thomas P. Rapid self-assembly of block copolymers to photonic crystals. United States.
Xia, Yan, Sveinbjornsson, Benjamin R, Grubbs, Robert H, Weitekamp, Raymond, Miyake, Garret M, Atwater, Harry A, Piunova, Victoria, Daeffler, Christopher Scot, Hong, Sung Woo, Gu, Weiyin, and Russell, Thomas P. Tue . "Rapid self-assembly of block copolymers to photonic crystals". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1260251.
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abstractNote = {The invention provides a class of copolymers having useful properties, including brush block copolymers, wedge-type block copolymers and hybrid wedge and polymer block copolymers. In an embodiment, for example, block copolymers of the invention incorporate chemically different blocks comprising polymer size chain groups and/or wedge groups that significantly inhibit chain entanglement, thereby enhancing molecular self-assembly processes for generating a range of supramolecular structures, such as periodic nanostructures and microstructures. The present invention also provides useful methods of making and using copolymers, including block copolymers.},
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