title: Nanoscale engineering of two-dimensional disordered hyperuniform block-copolymer assemblies.
abstract: Disordered hyperuniform (DH) media have been recognized as a new state of disordered matter that broadens our vision of material engineering. Here, long-range correlated disordered two-dimensional patterns are fabricated by self-assembling of spherical diblock-copolymer (BCP) micelles. Control of the self-assembling parameters leads to the formation of DH patterns of micelles that can host nanoscale material inclusions, therefore providing an effective strategy for fabricating multimaterial DH structures at molecular scale. Centroidal patterns are accurately determined by virtue of BCP micelles loaded with metal nanoparticles. Our analysis reveals the signature of nearly ideal DH BCP assemblies in the local density fluctuation and a dominant linear scaling in the local number fluctuation.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zito
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rusciano
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pesce
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malafronte
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Rocco
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Girolamo
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.|Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-SPIN, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ausanio
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano (Sa), Italy.|Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-SPIN U.O.S Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano (Sa), Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vecchione
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sasso