摘要: Through a combination of micro-contact imprinting and block copolymer self assembly, a highly dewetting process of a symmetric diblock copolymer occurs, leading to hierarchical development of microstructures (microdroplets or microterraces) and nanodomains. The process is driven by the macroscopically hexagonal-ordered circular geometry of the PS-grafted pattern on silicon substrates and by solvent annealing in solvent vapors of varied selectivity. We investigate how relief P(S-b-4VP) microstructures adjust their internal nanostructures and microscopic shape on a patterned substrate in response to solvent vapors of varied selectivity. Whereas solvent annealing in THF vapor causes formation of nanosphere-comprised droplets with a hemispherical cap, solvent annealing in chloroform and acetone vapors leads to the development of terraced stacks of parallel-oriented lamellae. Each lamellar layer within the terraced stacks has the thickness of an entire PS-P4VP/P4VP-PS layer. In contrast, three types of relief microstructures, nanosphere-comprised terraces, nanocylinder-comprised droplets and nanolamella-comprised terraces, are found in a dynamic process under DMF vapor. For DMF-annealed terraces, the stacks comprise PS-P4VP lamellar layers and thus the thickness of each PS-P4VP lamellar layer is effectively quantized by a half thickness of one PS-P4VP/P4VP-PS layer. The variances in nanoscale and microscale structures are due to the adaption of stimuli-responsive polymer materials to surrounding environments under the confinement of the patterned substrate. [Display omitted] 出版者: Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd 出版日期: 2012-11-30 出處: Polymer (Guilford), 2012-11, Vol.53 (25), p.5972-5981 版權: 2012 Elsevier Ltd 版權: 2014 INIST-CNRS 識別號: ISSN: 0032-3861 識別號: EISSN: 1873-2291 識別號: DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2012.10.031 識別號: CODEN: POLMAG