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 …

25th anniversary article: ordered polymer structures for the engineering of photons and phonons

JH Lee, CY Koh, JP Singer, SJ Jeon… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse methods for design of soft materials

ZM Sherman, MP Howard, BA Lindquist… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Functional soft materials, comprising colloidal and molecular building blocks that self-
organize into complex structures as a result of their tunable interactions, enable a wide array …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers by chemical or topographical guiding patterns: Optimizing molecular architecture, thin-film properties, and kinetics

W Li, M Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Patterning strategies based on directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers, as one of
the most appealing next-generation lithography techniques, have attracted abiding interest …

Process-directed self-assembly of copolymers: Results of and challenges for simulation studies

M Müller - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Process-directed self-assembly refers to processes that reproducibly trap the kinetics of
structure formation that ensues after a sudden change (“quench”) of the thermodynamic …

Neural-network-biased genetic algorithms for materials design: evolutionary algorithms that learn

TK Patra, V Meenakshisundaram… - ACS combinatorial …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Machine learning has the potential to dramatically accelerate high-throughput approaches
to materials design, as demonstrated by successes in biomolecular design and hard …

Defects in the self-assembly of block copolymers and their relevance for directed self-assembly

W Li, M Müller - Annual review of chemical and biomolecular …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Block copolymer self-assembly provides a platform for fabricating dense, ordered
nanostructures by encoding information in the chemical architecture of multicomponent …

Using particle swarm optimization and self-consistent field theory to discover globally stable morphologies of block copolymers

CL Tsai, GH Fredrickson - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present a method for agnostically determining the globally stable and low-lying
metastable mesophases of block copolymers by combining particle swarm optimization …

Silicon-containing block copolymers for lithographic applications

TY Lo, MR Krishnan, KY Lu, RM Ho - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
This comprehensive review, summarizes recent advances in the fabrication of well-ordered
block copolymer (BCP) thin films by different methods, focusing on the development of …

Comparison of technologies for nano device prototy** with a special focus on ion beams: A review

L Bruchhaus, P Mazarov, L Bischoff, J Gierak… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Nanotechnology is a term for analyzing or artificially creating features with at least one
physical dimension below 100 nanometer (nm), which is 1 Â 10À7 m or 10 millions of a …