Nanopatterned Carbon Films with Engineered Morphology by Direct Carbonization of UV-Stabilized Block Copolymer Films

作者:Wang Yong*; Liu Jinquan; Christiansen Silke; Kim Dong Ha; Goesele Ulrich; Steinhart Martin
来源:Nano Letters, 2008, 8(11): 3993-3997.
DOI:10.1021/nl802554h

摘要

Nanopatterned thin carbon films were prepared by direct and expeditious carbonization of the block copolymer polystyrene-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) without the necessity of slow heating to the process temperature and of addition of further carbon precursors. Carbonaceous films having an ordered "dots-on-film" surface topology were obtained from reverse micelle monolayers. The regular nanoporous morphology of PS-b-P2VP films obtained by subjecting reverse micelle monolayers to swelling-induced surface reconstruction could likewise be transferred to carbon films thus characterized by ordered nanopit arrays. Stabilization of PS-b-P2VP by UV irradiation and the concurrent carbonization of both blocks were key to the conservation of the film topography. The approach reported here may enable the realization of a broad range of nanoscaled architectures for carbonaceous materials using a block copolymer ideally suited as a template because of the pronounced repulsion between its blocks and its capability to form highly ordered microdomain structures.

  • 出版日期2008-11