The effect of molecular architecture on the grain growth kinetics of AnBn star block copolymers.

To investigate the effect of molecular architecture on the grain growth kinetics of star block copolymers, a series of AnBn miktoarm star block copolymers with different numbers of arms (n = 1, 2, 4 and 16) was studied. Across this entire series of materials, all the A arms are polystyrene (PS) blocks from the same anionically synthesized batch, and thus all the A arms are identical. Likewise, all the B arms are polyisoprene (PI) blocks from the same anionically synthesized batch, and thus all the B arms are identical.