Temperature Dependent Photonic Bandgap in a Self-Assembled Hydrogen Bonded Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymer

Birgit Hausmann

Reference

C. Osuji et. al. "Temperature Dependent Photonic Bandgap in a Self-Assembled Hydrogen Bonded Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymer", Adv. Funct. Mater., 753-758 (12) 2002

Results and Discussion

Fig. 1 Schematic for inverse opal synthesis: 1) Colloids assemble from a sol-gel solution 2) template removal

Fig. 2 Highly ordered I-<math>\mathrm{SiO_2}</math> films formed from PMMA/sol-gel coassembly (Left scale bar is <math>10\mu m </math> and right scale bar is <math>1\mu m </math>)