Patent 9822216 was granted and assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on November, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided herein are microphase-separated materials including a plurality of block copolymers tethered together at their A-B junction points. The tethered-together block copolymers, referred to as a block copolymer bottlebrush, provide microphase-separated materials having smaller domain spacing than previously achievable using block copolymer systems.