Patent ID: 8481164

Claim:
A method of forming a material, said method comprising: combining a self-assembling block copolymer with at least one crosslinkable polymer to form a mixture, said self-assembling block copolymer including a first block species and a second block species respectively characterized by a volume fraction of F 1 and F 2 with respect to at least one self-assembling block copolymer, said at least one crosslinkable polymer being miscible with said second block species and having a volume fraction F 3 in said mixture, said first and said second block species respectively having a volume fraction of F 1A and F 2A in said mixture; processing said mixture to form a material; and prior to said combining: providing a tangible data table comprising data in which each morphology of a plurality of morphologies and a range of (F 2A +F 3 ) of a plurality of ranges of (F 2A +F 3 ) are associated with each other, wherein (F 2A +F 3 ) denotes a sum of F 2A and F 3 , wherein said data has a characteristic that a performance of said combining and said processing using a value of (F 2A +F 3 ) in any range of (F 2A +F 3 ) of the plurality of ranges of (F 2A +F 3 ) in the data table forms a material having the morphology associated with said any range of (F 2A +F 3 ) in the data table; selecting a morphology from the plurality of morphologies; selecting from the data table the range of (F 2A +F 3 ) associated with the selected morphology; and preselecting (F 2A +F 3 ) from the selected range of (F 2A +F 3 ).