THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF BLOCK COPOLYMER MELTS AS NANO-MATERIALS

我们将结合模拟和精确的数值理论，从理论上研究和预测各种嵌段共聚物结构的可能形态。这些嵌段共聚物熔体具有重要的技术意义，因为它们可以自组装成纳米尺度上周期性的形态图案。因此，它们现在正在被广泛研究用于电子和光学器件的光刻模板，纳米多孔膜和光子带隙材料等各种应用。我们将通过对我们在理论上研究过的各种分子结构进行实验来验证我们的理论预测。

We shall theoretically study and predict the possible morphologies of a wide range of block copolymer architectures with a combination of simulations and accurate numerical theories. These block copolymer melts are of great technological importance because they can self-assemble into morphological patterns which are periodic on a nano-scale. Hence they are now being intensively investigated for uses in applications as diverse as lithographic templates for electronic and optical devices, nano-porous membranes and photonic band gap materials. We shall verify our theoretical predictions by carrying out experiments on the various molecular architectures that we have studied theoretically.