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Jun, 2006

Formation of a highly ordered dot array of surface micelles of a block copolymer via liquid crystal-hybridized self-assembly

LANGMUIR
  • Shusaku Nagano
  • ,
  • Yu Matsushita
  • ,
  • Yuki Ohnuma
  • ,
  • Satoshi Shinma
  • ,
  • Takahiro Seki

Volume
22
Number
12
First page
5233
Last page
5236
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1021/la060350k
Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC

A highly ordered dot array pattern of surface micelles on water is formed by a spread monolayer of an amphiphilic block copolymer, polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-4VP), via hybridization with a liquid crystal molecule, 4'-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB), on water. Simple co-spreading of PS-4VP with 5CB provides a flat homogeneous monolayer of PS-4VP on water without the aggregation of PS blocks. With increasing surface pressure, well-defined dots of the PS blocks start to grow and are arrayed in a highly ordered hexagonal structure. The exact coincidence of the surface pressure-area curves for the hybrid monolayer in the compression and expansion processes confirms that the flat spread monolayer and the dot array are formed on water in the equilibrium state by a self-assembly process.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/la060350k
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000237921100009&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1021/la060350k
  • ISSN : 0743-7463
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000237921100009

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