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Spontaneous assembly of hierarchical phases

Nature Nanotechnology volume 18, pages 223–224 (2023)Cite this article

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The self-assembly of a triblock bottlebrush polymer at one length scale controls the ordering of the self-assembly at a smaller scale, forming a hierarchical unit cell.

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Fig. 1: Chain architecture for hierarchical morphologies.

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