Self-Assembled Polymers: Advanced Processing and Hybrid Metrology
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 September 2023) | Viewed by 361
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metrology; clock copolymers; nanopatterning; hierarchical assembly; directed self-assembly
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have witnessed exceptional technical advances in the processing of self-assembling polymers at the nanoscale (e.g., block copolymers and polymeric nanoparticles) for the realization of functional nanomaterials with metals and dielectric compounds and tunable properties in the realms of photonics, electronics and nanotechnology. The vast portfolio of characterization techniques used in materials science faces novel challenges in the accurate determination of the composite materials’ properties at the nanoscale.
For this reason and due to the broad implications of these topics, this Special Issue is devoted to collecting the most recent research on the development of advanced nanofabrication and processing methods involving self-assembled polymer nano-objects and block copolymers, on their tailored optical and dimensional properties and on their multidimensional metrological characterization.
We encourage you to submit both original research papers and review articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Block copolymer self-assembly;
- Nanosphere lithography;
- Polymeric micelles;
- Directed self-assembly;
- Sequential infiltration synthesis;
- Vapor phase infiltration;
- Metal loading;
- Hybrid metrology at the nanoscale;
- Spectroscopic methods with optical and X-ray probes (e.g., spectroscopic ellipsometry, optical and X-ray reflectometry, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering);
- Plasmon enhanced spectroscopies (e.g., SERS, SEIRA, SEF);
- Structural and dimensional characterization;
- Electrical and optical characterization;
- Materials by design;
- Optical and electrical properties manipulation/control (e.g., optical constants, adsorption, luminescence, conductivity, resistivity, resistive switching);
- Novel applications in photonics and electronics.
Dr. Federico Ferrarese Lupi
Dr. Eleonora Cara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- self-assembled polymers
- block copolymers
- nanosphere self-assembly
- surface-enhanced spectroscopies
- optical properties
- sequential infiltration synthesis
- metrological characterization
- optical constants
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