Photoinduced Ordering of Block Copolymers
(1153–1160) Nano Letters 11 #3 (2011)

Dage et al of the University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts and Cornell University, New York, developed a process for ordering block copolymers by photoconversion of an additive resulting in  strong interactions between the additive and one of the chain segments resulting in an ordering of the copolymer structure.  The strategy is generally applicable to block copolymers containing chain segments capable of hydrogen bonding with the additive.  (RDC 3/24/2011)