The work presented in this thesis is centered around the development of optical tweezers as a tool for the manipulation of block copolymer nanostructures. We show how optical manipulation can be used to control the solution behaviour of a variety of nanostructured materials formed by self-assembly, enabling their patterning or the formation of novel hierarchical assemblies. Furthermore, we show how arrays of block copolymer nanostructures can be used as nucleation sites for the surface-directed self assembly of additional block copolymers and for the templating of functional materials.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:702446 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Gould, Oliver Edward Christopher |
| Publisher | University of Bristol |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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