Block copolymer electrolytes for lithium metal batteries: Strategies to boost both ionic conductivity and mechanical strength

T Wang, L Zhong, M **ao, D Han, S Wang… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mechanically hard phase and ionically conductive phase endow suitably designed
block copolymer electrolytes (BCPEs) with the “Janus” property, thus providing the …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers: a tutorial review of strategies for enabling nanotechnology with soft matter

H Hu, M Gopinadhan, CO Osuji - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of soft materials is broadly considered an attractive means of generating
nanoscale structures and patterns over large areas. However, the spontaneous formation of …

[HTML][HTML] Block copolymer thin films

C Huang, Y Zhu, X Man - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Block copolymer (BCP) represents a special type of polymeric system where each of the
polymer chains is composed of two or more chemically distinct homopolymer blocks that are …

Directing the self-assembly of block copolymers

SB Darling - Progress in polymer science, 2007 - Elsevier
Recently, a new spotlight has been focused on block copolymers, thoroughly studied for
nearly half a century, because of their potential use in numerous nanotechnologies. This …

Ordering in thin films of block copolymers: Fundamentals to potential applications

IW Hamley - Progress in polymer science, 2009 - Elsevier
The ordering of block copolymers in thin films is reviewed, starting from the fundamental
principles and extending to recent promising developments as templates for …

Nanoporous membranes generated from self‐assembled block polymer precursors: Quo Vadis?

Y Zhang, JL Sargent, BW Boudouris… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoporous membranes based on self‐assembled block polymer precursors are an
emerging class of promising separation, purification, and sensing devices due to the ability …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers in the extreme: guiding microdomains from the small to the large

K Koo, H Ahn, SW Kim, DY Ryu, TP Russell - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) is emerging as a promising route for
numerous applications to generate templates and scaffolds for the fabrication of …

Ionic conductivity of block copolymer electrolytes in the vicinity of order− disorder and order− order transitions

NS Wanakule, A Panday, SA Mullin, E Gann… - …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Order− order and order− disorder phase transitions in mixtures of poly (styrene-block-
ethylene oxide)(SEO) copolymers and lithium bis (trifluoromethylsulfonimide)(LiTFSI), a …

Electric field alignment of asymmetric diblock copolymer thin films

T Xu, AV Zvelindovsky, GJA Sevink… - …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The electric field alignment of cylindrical microdomains in diblock copolymer thin films was
studied using small-angle neutron scattering and transmission electron microscopy. The …

Efficient and accurate numerical schemes for a hydro-dynamically coupled phase field diblock copolymer model

Q Cheng, X Yang, J Shen - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we consider numerical approximations of a hydro-dynamically coupled phase
field diblock copolymer model, in which the free energy contains a kinetic potential, a …