Self-assembled nanostructures serve as excellent motives for the creation of organic and inorganic morphologies that enable applications which the polymers by themselves do no have. For the controlled replication of self-assembled morphologies, it is often necessary to partially void the self-assembled morphology to subsequently fill-in a new material. In my presentation I will discuss the interplay of the formation of porosity with this replication process, focussing particularly on the role of morphological symmetries and the structure of the interfaces that delimit the nanoporous material. The presentation will conclude with a discussion how the control of these parameters can be employed for the manufacture of optical metamaterials that are generated through the replication of block-copolymer self-assemblies.

Porous self-assembled block-copolymer scaffolds for nanomaterial fabrication

256th National Meeting (2018)

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