Tuning Block Polymer Structure, Properties, and Processability for the Design of Efficient Nanostructured Materials Systems
Abstract
Block polymers (BPs) are ideal building blocks for nanoporous membranes, microelectronics templates, energy storage devices, and other technologies. For these systems, precise control over morphology, properties, and processability are essential to optimize performance. The Epps group has used a multidisciplinary approach to control BP nanostructure ordering and orientations, order‐disorder and glass transition temperatures, and mechanical and transport properties through the informed manipulation of BP effective segregation strengths and interfacial energetics. For example, alterations in macromolecular interactions between BP chains were achieved through the introduction of composition gradients between copolymer blocks or by adding dopants. In thin films, high‐throughput approaches were designed to modify and characterize substrate‐polymer interactions, and solvent annealing techniques were developed to facilitate nanoscale alignment and ordering. By manipulating BP interfacial energetics to gain exquisite tunability of nanostructures and materials' properties, the group is accelerating the development of next‐generation BPs that will be harnessed to fabricate inexpensive, efficient, and high‐performance devices. image
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- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
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- Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1533188
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- OSTI ID: 1401512
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- SC0014458; DMR-1610134; DE‐SC0014458
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
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- Journal Volume: 218; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1022-1352
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- Wiley
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- United States
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- English
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; polymer science; block polymers; self-assemby; solvent annealing; tapered block polymers; thin films
Citation Formats
Morris, Melody A., Gartner, Thomas E., and Epps, Thomas H. Tuning Block Polymer Structure, Properties, and Processability for the Design of Efficient Nanostructured Materials Systems. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/macp.201600513.
Morris, Melody A., Gartner, Thomas E., & Epps, Thomas H. Tuning Block Polymer Structure, Properties, and Processability for the Design of Efficient Nanostructured Materials Systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.201600513
Morris, Melody A., Gartner, Thomas E., and Epps, Thomas H. Tue .
"Tuning Block Polymer Structure, Properties, and Processability for the Design of Efficient Nanostructured Materials Systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.201600513. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1533188.
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title = {Tuning Block Polymer Structure, Properties, and Processability for the Design of Efficient Nanostructured Materials Systems},
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abstractNote = {Block polymers (BPs) are ideal building blocks for nanoporous membranes, microelectronics templates, energy storage devices, and other technologies. For these systems, precise control over morphology, properties, and processability are essential to optimize performance. The Epps group has used a multidisciplinary approach to control BP nanostructure ordering and orientations, order‐disorder and glass transition temperatures, and mechanical and transport properties through the informed manipulation of BP effective segregation strengths and interfacial energetics. For example, alterations in macromolecular interactions between BP chains were achieved through the introduction of composition gradients between copolymer blocks or by adding dopants. In thin films, high‐throughput approaches were designed to modify and characterize substrate‐polymer interactions, and solvent annealing techniques were developed to facilitate nanoscale alignment and ordering. By manipulating BP interfacial energetics to gain exquisite tunability of nanostructures and materials' properties, the group is accelerating the development of next‐generation BPs that will be harnessed to fabricate inexpensive, efficient, and high‐performance devices. image},
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