Kinetics of directed self-assembly of block copolymers on chemically patterned substrates
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Kinetics of directed self-assembly of block copolymers on chemically patterned substrates
Müller, M.; Li, W.; Rey, J. C. O. & Welling, U. (2015)
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 640(1) art. 012010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/640/1/012010
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- Authors
- Müller, Marcus; Li, Weihua; Rey, Juan Carlos Orozco; Welling, Ulrich
- Abstract
- Chemically patterned surfaces have been successfully employed to direct the kinetics of self-assembly of block copolymers into dense, periodic morphologies ("chemoepitaxy"). Signi cant e orts have been directed towards understanding the kinetics of structure formation and, particularly, the formation and annihilation of defects. In the present manuscript we use computer simulations of a soft, coarse-grained polymer model to study the kinetics of structure formation of lamellar-forming block copolymer thin lms on a chemical pattern of lines and spaces. The case where the copolymer material replicates the surface pattern and the more subtle scenario of sparse guiding patterns are considered. Our simulation results highlight (1) the importance of the early stages of pattern-directed self-assembly that template the subsequent morphology and (2) the dependence of the free-energy landscape on the incompatibility between the two blocks of the copolymer.
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Journal
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Project
- info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/619793/EU//CoLiSA.MMP
- ISSN
- 1742-6596; 1742-6588
- eISSN
- 1742-6596
- Language
- English