Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 15, Issue 45, Pages 9325-9335Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01760g
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- Project HPC-EUROPA3 [INFRAIA-2016-1-730897]
- EC Research Innovation Action under the H2020 Programme
- MINECO [PGC2018-098373-B-100]
- DURSI [2017 SGR 884]
- SNF [200021-175719]
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Block copolymer melts self-assemble in the bulk into a variety of nanostructures, making them perfect candidates to template the position of nanoparticles. The morphological changes of block copolymers are studied in the presence of a considerable filling fraction of colloids. Furthermore, colloids can be found to assemble into ordered hexagonally close-packed structures in a defined number of layers when softly confined within the phase-separated block copolymer. A high concentration of interface-compatible nanoparticles leads to complex long-lived block copolymer morphologies depending on the polymeric composition. Macrophase separation between the colloids and the block copolymer can be induced if colloids are unsolvable within the matrix. This leads to the formation of ellipsoid-shaped polymer-rich domains elongated along the direction perpendicular to the interface between block copolymer domains.
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