“…Surfaces of block copolymers are of significant scientific and technological interest due to the tunability of their properties, which is critically important for the manifold applications of block copolymers such as adhesives, membranes, composite materials, biomaterials, and drug delivery systems, to name a few. − Consequently, block copolymer surfaces have been intensively studied with a wide spectrum of experimental techniques including contact angle measurements, , X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), , attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR−FTIR), , static secondary-ion mass spectrometry (static-SIMS), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), , and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. , All these studies confirm the intuitive picture that under dry conditions the more hydrophobic segments with a lower surface energy are enriched in the outermost surface region of the block copolymer films. When the surface is exposed to water, a reorganization of the molecular groups at the surface occurs to reduce the free energy of the new water−polymer interface by placing the more hydrophilic polymer segments in contact with water.…”