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PDMS300 (PFS PDMS = 1 6) in hexane. (Reproduced with permission from J. A. Massey, K.N. Power, M.A. Winnik and I. Manners, Organometallic nanostructures Self-assembly of poly (ferrocene) block copolymers, Advanced Materials, 1998, 10, 1559. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA.)... 

Ludwigs S, Boker A, Voronov A, Rehse N, Magerle R, Krausch G. Self-assembly of functional nanostructures from ABC tri-block copolymers. Nature Materials 2003 2 744. 

In the second part of this chapter recent progress towards nanostructured polycrystalline assemblies from block copolymer mesophases will be described. First, developments in the approaches presented so far toward nanostructured materials with crystalline nanoparticles embedded in an amorphous silica-type material will be discussed. The second section will describe a new assembly approach for the development of nanostructured materials with highly crystalline walls. The last part highlights achievements of the self-assembly of block copolymers with... 

Nanostructured polymers, in particular block copolymers, have immense potential in areas ranging from templating inorganic materials to permeation/ filtration media, nano-assaying, nanolithography and high density data storage media. 

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