Spontaneous Vertical Ordering and Pyrolytic Formation of Nanoscopic Ceramic Patterns from Poly(styrene‐b‐ferrocenylsilane)
- 17 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Advanced Materials
- Vol. 15 (4) , 297-300
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200390071
Abstract
The rapid generation of nanopatterned surfaces using thin films of the amorphous diblock copolymer poly(styrene‐b‐ferrocenylethylmethylsilane) (PS‐b‐PFS) is reported. Spontaneous self‐assembly into vertically oriented cylinders of PFS in a PS matrix is observed on a variety of substrates by spin or dip coating, irrespective of the substrate surface polarity. Pyrolysis of the films affords arrays of 20 nm Fe‐containing ceramic nanoparticles, (see Figure, AFM, 4 μm2 scan area).Keywords
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