Surfactant‐Assisted Orientation of Thin Diblock Copolymer Films

This work was financially supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) grant through the Acceleration Research and the NANO Systems Institute - National Core Research Center funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (R17-2007-059-01000-0 and R15-2003-032-02002-0), the Neutron Beam Research funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2007-00808), the Brain Korea 21 Program endorsed by the Ministry of Education of Korea and the Seoul Science Fellowship. Additional financial support of the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research (SNFS) for X.B. is acknowledged (PBEL2-110173). This work is also performed by the Collaborative Program of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center of National Science Foundation (NSF) (DMR-0425880).

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