PUBLICATIONS

(45) Pula, P.; Leniart, A. A.; Krol, J.; Gorzkowski, M.; Suster M.; Wrobel, P,; Lewera, A.; Majewski, P. W., Block Copolymer-Templated, Single-Step Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Sensing Applications. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acd25a.

(44) Szydlowska, J.; Majewski, P.W.; Čepič, M.; Vaupotič, N.; Rybak, P.; Imrie, C. T.; Walker, R.; Cruickshank, E.; Storey, J. M. D.; Damian, P.; Gorecka, E. Ferroelectric Nematic-Isotropic Liquid Critical End Point. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.216802.

(43) Yager, K. G.; Majewski, P. W.; Noack, M. M.; Fukuto, M. Autonomous X-Ray Scattering. Nanotechnology 2023, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/acd25a

(42) Wu, H.; Huang, H.; Zhang, Y.; Lu, X.; Majewski, P. W.; Feng, X. Stabilizing Differential Interfacial Curvatures by Mismatched Molecular Geometries: Toward Polymers with Percolating 1 Nm Channels of Gyroid Minimal Surfaces. ACS Nano 2022, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.2c09103#

(41) Pula, P.; Leniart, A. A.; Majewski, P. W. Solvent-assisted self-assembly of block copolymer thin films. Soft Matter 2022, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/sm/d2sm00439a.

(40) Leniart, A. A.; Pula, P.; Style R. W.; Majewski, P. W. Pathway-Dependent Grain Coarsening of Block Copolymer Patterns under Controlled Solvent Evaporation. ACS Macro Letters 2022, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00677.

(39) Majewski, P. W.; Michelson, A.; Cordeiro, M. A. L.; Tian, C.; Ma, C.; Kisslinger, K.; Tian, Y.; Liu, W.; Stach, E. A.; Yager, K. G.; Gang, O. Resilient Three-Dimensional Ordered Architectures Assembled from Nanoparticles by DNA. Science Advances 2021, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf0617.

(38) Cieciórski, P.; Majewski, P. W.; Megiel, E. New Photoresponsive Poly(Meth)Acrylates Bearing Azobenzene Moieties Obtained via ATRP Polymerization Exhibiting Liquid-Crystalline Behavior. Polymers 2021, https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13132172.

(37) Leniart, A. A.; Pula, P.; Tsai, E. H. R.; Majewski, P. W. Large-Grained Cylindrical Block Copolymer Morphologies by One-Step Room-Temperature Casting. Macromolecules 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02026.

(36) Leniart, A. A.; Pula, P.; Sitkiewicz, A.; Majewski, P. W. Macroscopic Alignment of Block Copolymers on Silicon Substrates by Laser Annealing. ACS Nano 2020, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c00696.

(35) Basutkar, M. N.; Majewski, P. W.; Doerk, G. S.; Toth, K.; Osuji, C. O.; Karim, A.; Yager, K. G. Aligned Morphologies in Near-Edge Regions of Block Copolymer Thin Films. Macromolecules 2019, 52 (19), 7224–7233. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01703

(34) Majewski, P. W.; Gopinadhan, M.; Osuji, C. O. The Effects of Magnetic Field Alignment on Lithium Ion Transport in a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane with Lamellar Morphology. Polymers (Basel). 2019, 11 (5), 887. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11050887.

(33) Novotná, V.; Hamplová, V.; Lejček, L.; Pociecha, D.; Cigl, M.; Fekete, L.; Glogarová, M.; Bednárová, L.; Majewski, P. W.; Gorecka, E. Organic Nanotubes Created from Mesogenic Derivatives. Nanoscale Adv. 2019, 1 (8), 2835–2839. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00175A

Liquid crystal nanotubes rolling-up mechanism.

(32) Vaupotič, N.; Ali, M.; Majewski, P. W.; Gorecka, E.; Pociecha, D. Polarization Gratings Spontaneously Formed from a Helical Twist-Bend Nematic Phase. ChemPhysChem 2018, 19 (19), 2566–2571. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201800360

(31) Liu, X.; Liu, W.; Carr, A. J.; Santiago Vazquez, D.; Nykypanchuk, D.; Majewski, P. W.; Routh, A. F.; Bhatia, S. R. Stratification during Evaporative Assembly of Multicomponent Nanoparticle Films. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 2018, 515, 70–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.01.005

(30) Choo, Y.; Majewski, P. W.; Fukuto, M.; Osuji, C. O.; Yager, K. G. Pathway-Engineering for Highly-Aligned Block Copolymer Arrays. Nanoscale 2018, 10 (1), 416–427. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr06069f

(29) Rokhlenko, Y.; Majewski, P. W.; Larson, S. R.; Gopalan, P.; Yager, K. G.; Osuji, C. O. Implications of Grain Size Variation in Magnetic Field Alignment of Block Copolymer Blends. ACS Macro Lett. 2017, 6 (4), 404–409. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00036

(28) Kaufman, G.; Montejo, K. A.; Michaut, A.; Majewski, P. W.; Osuji, C. O. Photoresponsive and Magnetoresponsive Graphene Oxide Microcapsules Fabricated by Droplet Microfluidics. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9 (50), 44192–44198. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b14448

(27) Rahman, A.; Majewski, P. W.; Doerk, G.; Black, C. T.; Yager, K. G. Non-Native Three-Dimensional Block Copolymer Morphologies. Nat. Commun. 2016, 7 (1), 13988. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13988

(26) Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Reordering Transitions during Annealing of Block Copolymer Cylinder Phases. Soft Matter 2016, 12 (1), 281–294. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5SM02441B

SEM of cylinder-forming BCP film during the reorientation transition.

(25) Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Rapid Ordering of Block Copolymer Thin Films. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2016, 28 (40), 403002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/28/40/403002

Spatiotemporal character of various DSA methods.

(24) Rokhlenko, Y.; Gopinadhan, M.; Osuji, C. O.; Zhang, K.; O’Hern, C. S.; Larson, S. R.; Gopalan, P.; Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Magnetic Alignment of Block Copolymer Microdomains by Intrinsic Chain Anisotropy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2015, 115 (25), 258302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.258302

Magnetic alignment of low-molecular PS-b-4VP lamellar block copolymer.

(23) Majewski, P. W.; Rahman, A.; Black, C. T.; Yager, K. G. Arbitrary Lattice Symmetries via Block Copolymer Nanomeshes. Nat. Commun. 2015, 6 (1), 7448. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8448

Hexagonal tri-layered Pt nanowire mesh templated from a BCP.

(22) Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Millisecond Ordering of Block Copolymer Films via Photothermal Gradients. ACS Nano 2015, 9 (4), 3896–3906. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn5071827

(21) Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Block Copolymer Response to Photothermal Stress Fields. Macromolecules 2015, 48 (13), 4591–4598. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00955

Photothermal shearing of block-copolymer thin films.

(20) Majewski, P. W.; Yager, K. G. Latent Alignment in Pathway-Dependent Ordering of Block Copolymer Thin Films. Nano Lett. 2015, 15 (8), 5221–5228. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01463

(19) Deshmukh, P.; Gopinadhan, M.; Choo, Y.; Ahn, S. K.; Majewski, P. W.; Yoon, S. Y.; Bakajin, O.; Elimelech, M.; Osuji, C. O.; Kasi, R. M. Molecular Design of Liquid Crystalline Brush-like Block Copolymers for Magnetic Field Directed Self-Assembly: A Platform for Functional Materials. ACS Macro Lett. 2014, 3 (5), 462–466. https://doi.org/10.1021/mz500161k

(18) Gopinadhan, M.; Deshmukh, P.; Choo, Y.; Majewski, P. W.; Bakajin, O.; Elimelech, M.; Kasi, R. M.; Osuji, C. O. Thermally Switchable Aligned Nanopores by Magnetic-Field Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers. Adv. Mater. 2014, 26 (30), 5148–5154. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201401569

(17) Yager, K. G.; Majewski, P. W. Metrics of Graininess: Robust Quantification of Grain Count from the Non-Uniformity of Scattering Rings. J. Appl. Crystallogr. 2014, 47 (6), 1855–1865. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576714020822

Grain-size quantification by analysis of azimuthal scattering distribution.

(16) Pelligra, C. I.; Majewski, P. W.; Osuji, C. O. Large Area Vertical Alignment of ZnO Nanowires in Semiconducting Polymer Thin Films Directed by Magnetic Fields. Nanoscale 2013, 5 (21), 10511–10517. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3nr03119e

Large area magnetic alignment of Co-doped ZnO nanowires.

(15) Tran, H.; Gopinadhan, M.; Majewski, P. W.; Shade, R.; Steffes, V.; Osuji, C. O.; Campos, L. M. Monoliths of Semiconducting Block Copolymers by Magnetic Alignment. ACS Nano 2013, 7 (6), 5514–5521. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn401725a

Magnetically-ordered BCP-perylene conjugates.

(14) Gopinadhan, M.; Majewski, P. W.; Choo, Y.; Osuji, C. O. Order-Disorder Transition and Alignment Dynamics of a Block Copolymer Under High Magnetic Fields by In Situ X-Ray Scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2013, 110 (7), 078301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.078301

Alignment dynamics of a BCP under high magnetic fields.

(13) Majewski, P. W.; Gopinadhan, M.; Osuji, C. O. Understanding Anisotropic Transport in Self-Assembled Membranes and Maximizing Ionic Conductivity by Microstructure Alignment. Soft Matter 2013, 9 (29), 7106. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3sm50320h

Anisotropic ion transport in self-assembled membranes.

(12) Kijewska, K.; Blanchard, G. J.; Szlachetko, J.; Stolarski, J.; Kisiel, A.; Michalska, A.; Maksymiuk, K.; Pisarek, M.; Majewski, P.; Krysiński, P.; et al. Photopolymerized Polypyrrole Microvessels. Chem. – A Eur. J. 2012, 18 (1), 310–320. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201101400

Photo-polymerized polypyrrole microvessels.

(11) Zhang, S.; Pelligra, C. I.; Keskar, G.; Jiang, J.; Majewski, P. W.; Taylor, A. D.; Ismail-Beigi, S.; Pfefferle, L. D.; Osuji, C. O. Directed Self-Assembly of Hybrid Oxide/Polymer Core/Shell Nanowires with Transport Optimized Morphology for Photovoltaics. Adv. Mater. 2012, 24 (1), 82–87. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201103708

Directed self-assembly of hybrid oxide/polymer core/shell nanowires.

(10) Majewski, P. W.; Gopinadhan, M.; Osuji, C. O. Magnetic Field Alignment of Block Copolymers and Polymer Nanocomposites: Scalable Microstructure Control in Functional Soft Materials. J. Polym. Sci. Part B Polym. Phys. 2012, 50 (1), 2–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/polb.22382

Field –aligned block-copolymer membrane.

(9) Gopinadhan, M.; Majewski, P. W.; Beach, E. S.; Osuji, C. O. Magnetic Field Alignment of a Diblock Copolymer Using a Supramolecular Route. ACS Macro Lett. 2012, 1 (1), 184–189. https://doi.org/10.1021/mz2001059

Magnetically-aligned BCP complexed by small liquid crystal molecules.

(8) Zhang, S.; Pelligra, C. I.; Keskar, G.; Majewski, P. W.; Ren, F.; Pfefferle, L. D.; Osuji, C. O. Liquid Crystalline Order and Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Magnetically Doped Semiconducting ZnO Nanowires. ACS Nano 2011, 5 (10), 8357–8364. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn203070d

Micrographs of field-aligned magnetically doped semiconducting ZnO nanowires.

(7) Zhang, S.; Majewski, P. W.; Keskar, G.; Pfefferle, L. D.; Osuji, C. O. Lyotropic Self-Assembly of High-Aspect-Ratio Semiconductor Nanowires of Single-Crystal ZnO. Langmuir 2011, 27 (18), 11616–11621. https://doi.org/10.1021/la200703u

(6) Majewski, P. W.; Gopinadhan, M.; Jang, W. S.; Lutkenhaus, J. L.; Osuji, C. O. Anisotropic Ionic Conductivity in Block Copolymer Membranes by Magnetic Field Alignment. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (49), 17516–17522. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja107309p

(5) Majewski, P. W.; Osuji, C. O. Controlled Alignment of Lamellar Lyotropic Mesophases by Rotation in a Magnetic Field. Langmuir 2010, 26 (11), 8737–8742. https://doi.org/10.1021/la100285j

(4) Gopinadhan, M.; Majewski, P. W.; Osuji, C. O. Facile Alignment of Amorphous Poly(Ethylene Oxide) Microdomains in a Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymer Using Magnetic Fields: Toward Ordered Electrolyte Membranes. Macromolecules 2010, 43 (7), 3286–3293. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma9026349

Schematic representation of X-ray scattering patterns under orthogonal angles of incidence.

(3) Majewski, P. W.; Osuji, C. O. Non-Degenerate Magnetic Alignment of Self-Assembled Mesophases. Soft Matter 2009, 5 (18), 3417–3421. https://doi.org/10.1039/b910705c

2-D X-ray scattering pattern of magnetically-aligned lamellar mesophase.

(2) Majewski, P.; Krysiński, P. Synthesis, Surface Modifications, and Size-Sorting of Mixed Nickel-Zinc Ferrite Colloidal Magnetic Nanoparticles. Chem. – A Eur. J. 2008, 14 (26), 7961–7968. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.200800369

Surface modifications and size‐sorting of nickel–zinc ferrite nanoparticles.

(1) Naughton, B. T.; Majewski, P.; Clarke, D. R. Magnetic Properties of Nickel–Zinc Ferrite Toroids Prepared from Nanoparticles. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2007, 90 (11), 3547–3553. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2007.01981.x

Toroids prepared from nickel–zinc ferrite nanoparticles.

This website is dedicated to the research in directed self-assembly of block copolymers, liquid crystals and to the synthesis of the functional nanostructures conducted by Dr. Pawel W. Majewski’s group.

This website is dedicated to the research in directed self-assembly of block copolymers, liquid crystals and to the synthesis of the functional nanostructures conducted by Dr. Pawel W. Majewski’s group.