We present three different techniques that use information about symmetries detected in the input formula to block the expansion of diamonds in a modal tableau. We show how these blocking techniques can be included in a ...

A metal-free protocol to obtain poly(acrylic acid)-block-polycaprolactone diblock copolymers (PAA-b-PCL) by a one-pot method involving simultaneous Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) and Ring Opening ...

Block copolymers constitute a fascinating group of polymeric materials belonging to the "soft matter" family. These materials are formed by blocks of polymeric chains from different monomers. In most cases, these blocks ...

Polymerization-induced nanostructuration combined with crystallization-driven self-assembly was used to generate complex nanostructures in an epoxy network. A PE-b-PEO block copolymer (Mn = 1400; 50 wt% PEO), was dispersed ...

Nanostructured thermosets may be obtained by the self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers (BCP) in a reactive solvent and fixation of the resulting morphologies by the cross-linking reaction. Nanostructuration requires ...

We study the dynamics of coarsening in a cylinder-forming polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene-alt-propylene) block copolymer thin film deposited on a topographically patterned substrate. Thermal annealing leads to highly ordered ...

This paper introduces a new and effective information theoretic test of the accuracy of the Markov property of block errors in fading channels. We apply the test to verify the validity of a first-order Markov model for ...

Block copolymers have attracted considerable attention due to their ability to self-assemble into highly regular structures, spanning length scales from several nanometers to over 100 nm. Block copolymers confined in thin ...

In this work we study equilibrium and non-equilibrium structures of smectic block copolymer thin films deposited on a topographically patterned substrate. A Brazovskii free energy model is employed to analyze the coupling ...