Summary
NON TECHNICAL: Finding out how a particular processing path either purposefully creates or minimizes various classes of defects is key to further progress in exploiting soft matter crystals for their intriguing material properties. Soft matter crystals such as those comprised of block copolymer molecules form via self assembly of the component molecules into periodic arrays. Recent advances made with new types of microscopy now enable 3D visualization of the fine-scale features of organized block polymers. While the structures are mostly regularly periodic, defects occur and the aim is t
