Spontaneous assembly of hierarchical phases

Citation

Yager, K.G. "Spontaneous assembly of hierarchical phases" Nature Nanotechnology 2023, 18 223–224.
doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01294-y

Summary

We provide an opinion on a recent advance in self-assembling material design published by Sun et al.

Abstract

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.