Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Driven by 3D Printing, Toward Advanced Hierarchical Materials – nanoPIMS3D

nanoPIMS3D objective is to bring block copolymer self-assembly (50 to 500 nm) commensurate with 3D printing (submicrometric resolution). The ultimate ambition is to produce tailor-made multiphasic 3D hierarchical structures. Such a global control on polymer hierarchical ordering would be a major milestone towards complex and advanced materials fabrication. The knowledge and knowhow developed in nanoPIMS3D would be a breakthrough brick to generate biomimetic objects or to develop 3D nanoelectronics strategies, among other applications. Indeed, 3D nanoelectronics requires the development of 3D nano-scaffolds to later locate and orient nano-objects (e.g., nanowires). In parallel, many of the natural materials exhibit exceptional properties thanks to their hierarchical morphologies resulting from an evolution over billions of years. But reproducing simplified bioinspired materials for applications or as model system remains non-trivial. Based on a transdisciplinary and trans-sectoral consortium, gathering all needed expertise, nanoPIMS3D will address the challenges to make possible multiphasic hierarchical structures 3D printing with a control from nanometer to millimeter.