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Painting with block copolymers

A combination of self-assembly and jet printing can be used to create block copolymer films with complex structures and tunable periodicities across a large substrate.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the electrohydrodynamic jet printing process used to paint hierarchical micrometre-to-wafer-scale-sized patterns with block copolymer inks, where the block copolymer structure and periodicity (typically 20–50 nm) can be varied locally2.

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Register, R. Painting with block copolymers. Nature Nanotech 8, 618–619 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.175

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