Concepts, fabrication methods and applications of living crystallization-driven self-assembly of block copolymers

Living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) has emerged as a technique that is able to perform solution phase self-assembly of semi-crystalline block copolymers in a controlled and modular fashion. It has been widely demonstrated to generate myriads of submicron-sized assemblies ranging from low-curvature non-spherical particles to complex hierarchical architectures with precise morphological and dimensional control. Living CDSA has since...