| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 53, Number 6, March 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 722 - 728 | |
| Section | Atomic and molecular physics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2001-00211-3 | |
| Published online | 01 December 2003 | |
Diblock copolymer ordering induced by patterned surfaces
School of Physics and Astronomy
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
Tel Aviv University - 69978 Ramat Aviv, Israel
Received:
20
June
2000
Accepted:
12
January
2001
We use a Ginzburg-Landau free-energy functional to investigate diblock copolymer morphologies when the copolymer melt interacts with one surface or is confined between two chemically patterned surfaces. For temperatures above the order-disorder transition a complete linear response description of the copolymer melt is given, in terms of an arbitrary two-dimensional surface pattern. The appearance of order in the direction parallel to the surface is found as a result of the order in the perpendicular direction. Below the order-disorder transition and in a thin-film geometry, our procedure enables an analytic calculation of distorted perpendicular and tilted lamellar phases in the presence of uniform or striped surface fields.
PACS: 36.20.-r – Macromolecules and polymer molecules / 68.55.-a – Thin film structure and morphology / 61.25.Hq – Macromolecular and polymer solutions; polymer melts; swelling
© EDP Sciences, 2001
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