scholarly journals Correction: Real-space evidence of the equilibrium ordered bicontinuous double diamond structure of a diblock copolymer

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 4142-4142 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Y. Chu ◽  
X. Jiang ◽  
H. Jinnai ◽  
R. Y. Pei ◽  
W. F. Lin ◽  
...  
Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1871-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Y. Chu ◽  
X. Jiang ◽  
H. Jinnai ◽  
R. Y. Pei ◽  
W. F. Lin ◽  
...  

A thermally stable ordered bicontinuous double diamond (OBDD) structure in a stereoregular diblock copolymer has been revealed by electron tomography. The structure underwent a thermally reversible transition to double gyroid upon heating, accompanied by a reduction of domain spacing.


1989 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen I. Winey ◽  
Edwin L. Thomas

ABSTRACTWe report the observation of the ordered bicontinuous double diamond (OBDD) structure in binary blends of poly(styrene-isoprene) diblock copolymer and homopolystyrene. The overall polystyrene volume fraction range is 64 - 67 PSvol% for the OBDD structure in binary blends of a lamellar diblock (SI 27/22) and a homopolymer (14.0 hPS). This composition range is approximately within the polystyrene volume fraction range established for pure diblock copolymers in the strong segregation regime having the OBDD structure. Ordered lamellae are observed at approximately 65 PSvol% when the homopolystyrene molecular weight is greater than the molecular weight of the polystyrene block of the copolymer. This observation is discussed in terms of the decreased degree of mixing between the homopolymer and the corresponding block and the resultant effect on the interfacial curvature.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 4049-4058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Hsuan Lin ◽  
Takeshi Higuchi ◽  
Hsin-Lung Chen ◽  
Jing-Cherng Tsai ◽  
Hiroshi Jinnai ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Author(s):  
Gregory N. Smith ◽  
Victoria J. Cunningham ◽  
Sarah L. Canning ◽  
Matthew J. Derry ◽  
J. F. K. Cooper ◽  
...  

Concentrated dispersions of polymer nanoparticles with high contrast can be studied using SESANS in real space.


1991 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen I. Winey

AbstractBinary blends of diblock copolymer (AB) and homopolymer (hA) self assemble upon solvent evaporation into a great variety of microphase separated morphologies. The ordered lamellar, bicontinuous double diamond, cylindrical and spherical morphologies were observed by TEM and SAXS in our studies, as well as a range of micellar morphologies.The mean curvature (H) and the area per copolymer junction (σj), which characterize the intermaterial dividing surface, increased with increasing homopolymer concentration in the blend and/or with decreasing homopolymer molecular weight. These trends were generally obeyed both between and within ordered morphology types. The increase in H and σj was related to an increased degree of mixing between the homopolymer and the block of the copolymer.Two types of isothermal morphology diagrams were constructed to consolidate the extensive morphological data and to illustrate the general morphological transitions in AB/hA blends. The constant molecular weight morphology diagrams illustrated the interdependence of the copolymer composition and the homopolymer concentration. The constant copolymer composition diagrams emphasized the importance of the relative homopolymer molecular weight and the overall blend composition.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 831-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Kai Liu ◽  
Li-Jun Ren ◽  
Han Wu ◽  
Yong-Li Ma ◽  
Sven Richter ◽  
...  

Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 5999-6008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Min Chen ◽  
Yi-Jiun Huang ◽  
Kung-Hwa Wei

We characterized the critical spatial arrangement of gold and silver NPs in the two blocks of the nanostructured diblock copolymer using reciprocal-space synchrotron grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering as well as atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy in the real space.


Author(s):  
Chris S. Henkee ◽  
Edwin L. Thomas

The morphology present in block copolymers is determined by the volume percent of each of the components present. When the minority component ranges from 0-20 vol%, spherical micelles of the minority component are found. From 20-35 vol%, cylindrical microdomains are observed; at volume fractions slightly greater than this (35-38%), the ordered bicontinuous double diamond structure is observed. Finally from 38-≃60 vol%, regular alternating lamellae are found. It is now well known that for polystyrene-polybutadiene (PS/PB) diblock copolymers in which the PB is the minority component forming either spheres or cylinders, that deformation takes place via crazing. The mechanism for craze growth in these polymers appears to be a two stage process; the cavitation of the PB phase, followed by the drawing of the PS matrix into fibrils spanning the region of local deformation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 48003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideaki Takagi ◽  
Katsuhiro Yamamoto ◽  
Shigeru Okamoto

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