American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 22(127), p. 8018-8019, 2005
DOI: 10.1021/ja0505806
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This work describes a new orientation method for semicrystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) thin films, coupling nanorubbing and subsequent crystallization. Using the stylus of an atomic force microscope, we align the polymer chains on P3HT surfaces with a spatial and geometrical control of the oriented domains (nanorubbing). These chain-aligned structures can be made permanent thanks to the crystallization process, which propagates the orientation obtained at the surface to the bulk.