%0 journal article %@ 1759-9954 %A Georgopanos, P., Lo, T.-Y., Ho, R.-M., Avgeropoulos, A. %D 2017 %J Polymer Chemistry %N 5 %P 843-850 %R doi:10.1039/C6PY01768A %T Synthesis, molecular characterization and self-assembly of (PS-b-PDMS)n type linear (n = 1, 2) and star (n = 3, 4) block copolymers %U https://doi.org/10.1039/C6PY01768A 5 %X Well-defined linear (n = 1, 2) and star (n = 3, 4) architecture [polystyrene-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane)]n or (PS-b-PDMS)n block copolymers were synthesized by anionic polymerization and using various chlorosilanes as linking agents. The self-assembly of the novel synthesized copolymers revealed that microphase separation for the star-block copolymers is significantly influenced by entropy constraints due to the increased number of junction points.