As nanotechnology increasingly gains importance in daily life, the need for novel nanoscopic structures also rises exponentially. For example, to keep up with Moore’s law, the packing density of integrated circuits has to increase on an almost daily basis. Considering the growing number of electronically stored data, it is also clear that novel data storage techniques have to be devised aiming to increase the information density on a hard disk. For such applications, the microstructures formed by block copolymers via their microphase separation present an ideal template for the fabrication of nanoscale patterns ranging from 10 ? 100 nm [1]. In order to profit from the self-assembly of block copolymers into various microstructures, one has to be able to control the parameters that govern this unique self-ordering process. In addition, it would be desirable to guide selfassembly via external fields to form macroscopically oriented, highly ordered structures.
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Böker, A. (2007). Control of Block Copolymer Microdomain Orientation from Solution using Electric Fields: Governing Parameters and Mechanisms. In: Zvelindovsky, A.V. (eds) Nanostructured Soft Matter. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6330-5_7
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