Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers.

Soft Matter

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA and Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.

Published: July 2008

Although block copolymer motifs have received considerable attention as supramolecular templates for inorganic nanoparticles, experimental observations of a nanostructured diblock copolymer containing inorganic nanoparticles-supported by theoretical trends predicted from a hybrid self-consistent field/density functional theory-confirm that nanoparticle size and selectivity can likewise stabilize the copolymer nanostructure by increasing its order-disorder transition temperature.

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