1 A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. chrisli@drexel.edu.
2 A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. chrisli@drexel.edu and Department of Polymer Science and Engineering and The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China. qfzhou@pku.edu.cn.
3 Department of Polymer Science and Engineering and The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China. qfzhou@pku.edu.cn.
4 Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA.
Core-shell type of architecture revealed the subtle competition between liquid-crystalline ordering and block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly in a rod-coil BCP system.