Ha, Min Young Ryu, Ji Ho Cho, Eugene N. Choi, Junwon Kim, YongJoo Lee, Won Bo 2024-01-19T18:34:41Z 2024-01-19T18:34:41Z 2021-09-05 2019-11-15 2470-0045 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/119326 In this paper, we explore the self-assembly behavior of disk-coil block copolymers (BCPs) confined within a cylinder using molecular dynamics simulations. As functions of the diameter of the confining cylinder and the number of coil beads, concentric lamellar structures are obtained with a different number of alternating disk-rich and coil-rich bilayers. Our paper focuses on the curvature-induced structural behavior in the disk-rich domain of a self-assembled structure, which is investigated by calculating the local density distribution P(r) and the orientational distribution G(r, theta). In the inner layers of cylinder-confined disk-coil BCPs, both P(r) and G(r, theta) show characteristic asymmetry within a bilayer which is directly contrasted with the bulk and slab-confined disk-coil BCPs. We successfully explain the structural frustration of disks arising from the curved structure due to packing frustration of disks and asymmetric stretching of coils to the regions with different curvatures in a bilayer. Our results are important to understand the self-assembly behavior of BCPs containing a rigid motif in a confined structure, such as a self-assembled structure of bacteriochlorophyll molecules confined by a lipid layer to form a chlorosome, the photosynthetic antennae complex found in nature. English AMER PHYSICAL SOC DIBLOCK COPOLYMER BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL-C ROD MORPHOLOGY NANOLITHOGRAPHY ORGANIZATION CHLOROSOMES CHLORINS DIAGRAM BLENDS Phase behavior of disk-coil block copolymers under cylindrical confinement: Curvature-induced structural frustrations Article 10.1103/PhysRevE.100.052502 1 PHYSICAL REVIEW E, v.100, no.5 PHYSICAL REVIEW E 100 5 scie scopus 000496927300005 2-s2.0-85075600611 Physics, Fluids & Plasmas Physics, Mathematical Physics Article DIBLOCK COPOLYMER BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL-C ROD MORPHOLOGY NANOLITHOGRAPHY ORGANIZATION CHLOROSOMES CHLORINS DIAGRAM BLENDS