Nanoassembly of Polydisperse Photonic Crystals based on Binary and Ternary Polymer Opal Alloys
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-05-10 v1 Optics
Abstract
Ordered binary and ternary photonic crystals, composed of different sized polymer-composite spheres with diameter ratios up to 120%, are generated using bending induced oscillatory shearing (BIOS). This viscoelastic system creates polydisperse equilibrium structures, producing mixed opaline colored films with greatly reduced requirements for particle monodispersity, and very different sphere size ratios, compared to other methods of nano-assembly.
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@article{arxiv.1605.02676,
title = {Nanoassembly of Polydisperse Photonic Crystals based on Binary and Ternary Polymer Opal Alloys},
author = {Qibin Zhao and Chris E. Finlayson and Christian Schafer and Peter Spahn and Markus Gallei and Lars Herrmann and Andrei Petukhov and Jeremy J. Baumberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.02676},
year = {2016}
}