Self-Organization of Triblock Copolymer Melt Chains Physisorbed on Non-neutral Surfaces
Abstract
In this study, we report the self-organization process of poly(styrene-b-ethylene/butadiene-b-styrene) (SEBS) triblock copolymer chains physically adsorbed on a non-neutral surface. Spin-cast SEBS thin films were prepared on silicon (Si) substrates and then annealed at a high temperature far above the bulk glass transition temperatures of the two constituent blocks. To reveal the buried interfacial structure, we utilized solvent rinsing processes and a suite of surface-sensitive techniques including ellipsometry, X-ray reflectivity, atomic force microscopy, and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering. We revealed that the SEBS chains form two different chain structures on the substrate simultaneously: (i) “flattened chains” with the average height of 2.5 nm but without forming microdomain structures; (ii) “loosely adsorbed chains” with the average height of 11.0 nm and the formation of perpendicularly oriented cylindrical microdomains to the substrate surface. In addition, the kinetics to form the perpendicular-oriented cylinder was sluggish (~200 h) and proceeded via multistep processes toward the equilibrium state. We also found that the lateral microdomain structures were distorted, and the characteristic lengths of the microdomains were slightly different from the bulk even after reaching “quasiequilibrium” state within the observed time window. Furthermore, we highlight the vital role of the adsorbed chains in themore »
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- Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1491131
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Journal ID: ISSN 2470-1343
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- SC0012704
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- Journal Name:
- ACS Omega
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- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-1343
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- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; block copolymers; self-assembly
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Jiang, Naisheng, Di, Xiaoyu, Salatto, Daniel, Nam, Chang -Yong, Fukuto, Masafumi, Endoh, Maya K., and Koga, Tadanori. Self-Organization of Triblock Copolymer Melt Chains Physisorbed on Non-neutral Surfaces. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b02912.
Jiang, Naisheng, Di, Xiaoyu, Salatto, Daniel, Nam, Chang -Yong, Fukuto, Masafumi, Endoh, Maya K., & Koga, Tadanori. Self-Organization of Triblock Copolymer Melt Chains Physisorbed on Non-neutral Surfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02912
Jiang, Naisheng, Di, Xiaoyu, Salatto, Daniel, Nam, Chang -Yong, Fukuto, Masafumi, Endoh, Maya K., and Koga, Tadanori. Wed .
"Self-Organization of Triblock Copolymer Melt Chains Physisorbed on Non-neutral Surfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02912. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1491131.
@article{osti_1491131,
title = {Self-Organization of Triblock Copolymer Melt Chains Physisorbed on Non-neutral Surfaces},
author = {Jiang, Naisheng and Di, Xiaoyu and Salatto, Daniel and Nam, Chang -Yong and Fukuto, Masafumi and Endoh, Maya K. and Koga, Tadanori},
abstractNote = {In this study, we report the self-organization process of poly(styrene-b-ethylene/butadiene-b-styrene) (SEBS) triblock copolymer chains physically adsorbed on a non-neutral surface. Spin-cast SEBS thin films were prepared on silicon (Si) substrates and then annealed at a high temperature far above the bulk glass transition temperatures of the two constituent blocks. To reveal the buried interfacial structure, we utilized solvent rinsing processes and a suite of surface-sensitive techniques including ellipsometry, X-ray reflectivity, atomic force microscopy, and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering. We revealed that the SEBS chains form two different chain structures on the substrate simultaneously: (i) “flattened chains” with the average height of 2.5 nm but without forming microdomain structures; (ii) “loosely adsorbed chains” with the average height of 11.0 nm and the formation of perpendicularly oriented cylindrical microdomains to the substrate surface. In addition, the kinetics to form the perpendicular-oriented cylinder was sluggish (~200 h) and proceeded via multistep processes toward the equilibrium state. We also found that the lateral microdomain structures were distorted, and the characteristic lengths of the microdomains were slightly different from the bulk even after reaching “quasiequilibrium” state within the observed time window. Furthermore, we highlight the vital role of the adsorbed chains in the self-assembling process of the entire SEBS thin film: a long-range perturbation associated with the adsorbed chains propagates into the film interior, overwhelming the free surface effect associated with surface segregation of the lower surface tension of polystyrene blocks.},
doi = {10.1021/acsomega.8b02912},
journal = {ACS Omega},
number = 12,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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