title: Self-assembly of diblock copolymer confined in an array-structure space.
abstract: The combination of top-down and bottom-up technologies is an effective method to create the novel nanostructures with long range order in the field of advanced materials manufacture. In this work, we employed a polymeric self-consistent field theory to investigate the pattern formation of diblock copolymer in a 2D confinement system designed by filling pillar arrays with various 2D shapes such as squares, rectangles, and triangles. Our simulation shows that in such confinement system, the microphase structure of diblock copolymer strongly depends on the pitch, shape, size, and rotation of the pillar as well as the surface field of confinement. The array structures can not only induce the formation of new phase patterns but also control the location and orientation of pattern structures. Finally, several methods to tune the commensuration and frustration of array-structure confinement are proposed and examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Xuehao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Zhixiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin 300072, China.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kan
authors.affiliation: Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
authors.forename: Haojun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D044367:Phase Transition; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers