分解性液晶ジブロック共重合体の合成と選択的分解挙動

抄録

Block copolymers have attracted great attention as nanotamplates utilizing sub-100 nm structures formed by microphase separation. It is necessary to achieve regulated microphase-separated structures to obtain desired functions. We have recently proposed a facile method for unidirectionally aligning microphase-separated structures simply by introducing a nematic liquid-crystalline polymer block, where the molecular alignment of liquid crystals induces the aligned nanostructures without guide patterns. In this study, we designed a block copolymer consisting of degradable polymer and nematic liquid-crystalline polymer blocks towards developing hollow nanotemplates with regulated alignment. We present the synthesis of the block copolymer and evaluation of their fundamental properties.