Nano-engineering of ceramic materials is investigated using block copolymers obtained from poly(isoprene- b-ethyleneoxide). The dimensions of these “hairy”, nano-sized products can be tuned by adding varying amounts of two metal alkoxides to give rise to objects of different shapes. The Figure shows a TEM image of cylindrical aluminosilicate coated with a thin layer of block copolymer.
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Ulrich et al. (1999) studied this question.