Saturday, October 6, 2012

Precisely Tunable Photonic Crystals From Rapidly Self-Assembling Brush Block Copolymer Blends

Garret M. Miyake, Victoria A. Piunova, Raymond A. Weitekamp, and Robert H. Grubbs

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201205743/full

The researchers synthesized block copolymers consisting of equal amounts of norbornene functionalized hexyl isocyanate and 4-phenyl butyl isocyanate macromonomers of two different molecular weights. A blend of two block polymer in which the ratio of the MW is less than five will lead to the self-assembly of photonic crystals. By varying the amount of the smaller and larger block copolymer, a change in the wavelength of reflectivity was observed, with increasing amounts of the larger block resulting in longer wavelengths of reflectivity.

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