Editors: | F. Kongoli, F. Marquis, N. Chikhradze, T. Prikhna, M. De Campos, S. Lewis, S. Miller, S. Thomas. |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2022 |
Pages: | 290 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-989820-68-1(CD) |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
To date, numerous studies have been focused on the self-assembly of petroleum-based block copolymer systems for potential applications in multidisciplinary fields, such as nano-organized films for biosensors, or nanolithography, etc. Such materials are derived from fossil resources that are being rapidly depleted and have negative environmental impacts. In contrast, carbohydrates are abundant, renewable and constitute a sustainable source of materials. This is currently attracting much interest in various sectors and their industrial applications at the nanoscale level will have to expand quickly in response to the transition to a bio-based economy. The self-assembly of carbohydrate BCP systems at the nanoscale level via the bottom-up approach, has allowed only recently the conception of very high-resolution patterning (thin films with sub_10nm resolution) that has never been attained to date by petroleum-based molecules and provides these new materials with novel properties such as: New generation of Nanolithography, Memory devices, OPV, high resolution Biosensors. We will present recent results on the self-assemblies of carbohydrate-based block copolymer leading to highly nanostructured thin films (sub-10nm resolution) using DSA approach in combination of solvent and/or thermal annealing as well as new and ultra-fast microwave “cooking” approach”.(1-6)