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ArticleNature communications2019

Emergent symmetries in block copolymer epitaxy.

Yi Ding, Karim R Gadelrab, Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, Hejin Huang, Caroline A Ross, Alfredo Alexander-Katz

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Yi DingDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Karim R GadelrabDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6000-3364
Katherine Mizrahi RodriguezDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Hejin HuangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9250-8797
Caroline A RossDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2262-1249
Alfredo Alexander-KatzDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. aalexand@mit.edu.

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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ER46919
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) has shown promise in fabricating customized two-dimensional (2D) geometries at the nano- and meso-scale. Here, we discover spontaneous symmetry breaking and superlattice formation in DSA of BCP. We observe the emergence of low symmetry phases in high symmetry templates for BCPs that would otherwise not exhibit these phases in the bulk or thin films. The emergence phenomena are found to be a general behavior of BCP in various template layouts with square local geometry, such as 4

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