Issue 8, 2008
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Soft Matter

Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers

Michelle K. Gaines,a   Steven D. Smith,b   Jon Samseth,c   Michael R. Bockstaller,d   Russell B. Thompson,e   Kim Ø. Rasmussen*f  and  Richard J. Spontak*ag  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

b Miami Valley Innovation Center, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, USA

c Department of Process Technology, SINTEF Materials & Chemistry, N-7465 Trondheim and Akershus University College, Lillestrøm, Norway

d Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

e Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

f Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

g Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

Abstract

Although block copolymer motifs have received considerable attention as supramolecular templates for inorganic nanoparticles, experimental observations of a nanostructured diblock copolymer containing inorganic nanoparticles—supported by theoretical trends predicted from a hybrid self-consistent field/density functional theory—confirm that nanoparticle size and selectivity can likewise stabilize the copolymer nanostructure by increasing its order–disorder transition temperature.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B805540H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Apr 2008
Accepted
12 Jun 2008
First published
30 Jun 2008

Soft Matter, 2008,4, 1609-1612

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Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers

M. K. Gaines, S. D. Smith, J. Samseth, M. R. Bockstaller, R. B. Thompson, K. Ø. Rasmussen and R. J. Spontak, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 1609 DOI: 10.1039/B805540H

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