Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 1398-1413Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm27031e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20774052, 20990234]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China [20925414]
- Nankai University ISC
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
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Block copolymers are a class of soft matter that self-assemble to form ordered morphologies at nanometer scales, making them ideal materials for various applications. The self-assembly of block copolymers is mainly controlled by the monomer-monomer interactions, block compositions and molecular architectures. Besides these intrinsic parameters, placing block copolymers under confinement introduces a number of extrinsic factors, including the degree of structural frustration and surface-polymer interactions, which can strongly influence the self-assembled morphologies. Therefore confinement of block copolymers provides a powerful route to manipulate their self-assembled nanostructures. In this review, we discuss the relationship between confining conditions and the resulting structures, focusing on principles governing structural formation of diblock copolymers under two-dimensional and three-dimensional confinement. In particular, the effects of commensurability condition, surface-polymer interactions, and confining geometries on the self-assembled morphologies are discussed.
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