Block Copolymer-Directed Single-Diamond Hybrid Structures Derived from X-ray Nanotomography.

ABSTRACT: Block copolymers are recognized as a valuable platform for creating nanostructured materials. Morphologies formed by block copolymer self-assembly can be transferred into a wide range of inorganic materials, enabling applications including energy storage and metamaterials. However, imaging of the underlying, often complex, nanostructures in large volumes has remained a challenge, limiting progress in materials development. Taking advantage of recent advances in X-ray nanotomography, we noninvasively imaged exceptionally large volumes of nanostructured hybrid materials at high resolution, revealing a single-diamond morphology in a triblock terpolymer-gold composite network. This morphology, which is ubiquitous in nature, has so far remained elusive in block copolymer-derived materials, desp

SUBMITTER: Djeghdi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447912 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature