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Self-assembly of symmetric diblock copolymers in confined state has been in
vestigated by means of Monte Carlo simulation method. The symmetric diblock
copolymers were confined in two- (parallel walls or circle) or in three-di
mensional (spherical pr cylindrical) space. There are interactions between
these boundaries and the symmetric diblock polymers. These interactions and
boundary shape resulted in the formation of novel self-assemble structures
, e.g., strip, circle, core-multishell, and multibarrel-layer structures. S
imulation results-predicated that it is possible to design different phase
structures for block copolymers by adjusting boundary shape and boundary-bl
ock copolymer interactions. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.