Simulated Annealing Study of Self‐Assembly of Symmetric ABA Triblock Copolymers Confined in Cylindrical Nanopores

Abstract We report a simulated annealing study of the self‐assembly of symmetric lamella‐forming ABA triblock copolymers confined in cylindrical nanopores. We systematically examine the dependence of the self‐assembled morphologies and structural parameters on the degree of confinement and the strength of the surface preference. We find that the confined morphologies for the symmetric ABA triblocks with f A = 1/2 are similar to those for the …