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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 852-859Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma071004s
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Scanning transmission electron tomography was used to determine the three-dimensional structure of a poly (ethylene-alt-propylene-block-ethylene oxide-block-n-hexyl methacrylate) (PEP-b-PEO-b-PHMA) triblock copolymer/aluminosilicate material with domain volume fractions of f(PEP) = 0. M f(PEO+aluminosilicate) = 0-32, and f(PHMA) = 0.49. The PEO/aluminosilicate domains formed layers of zigzag-shaped strands (concertinas). Strands were arranged in a four-layer woodpile structure (Sozuer, H. S.; Dowling, J. P. J. Mod. Opt. 1994, 41, 231239), in which strands in successive layers run in alternate directions (similar to 75 degrees) and the third and fourth layers are offset. Modeling suggests the PEP and PHMA domains on the outside of each PED/alummosilicate strand may stabilize this unusual structure. This result suggests that synthetic macromolecules with multidomain architectures,. such as ABC triblock copolymers, can direct the assembly of silica and othet ceramic materials into complex new morphologies.
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