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Mesoporous Bragg Reflectors: Block-copolymer Self-assembly Leads to Building Blocks with Well Defined Continuous Pores and High Control Over Optical Properties

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Mesoporous distributed Bragg reflectors (MDBRs) exhibit porosity on the sub-optical length scale. This makes them ideally suited as sensing platforms in biology and chemistry as well as for light management in optoelectronic devices. Here we present a new fast forward route for the fabrication of MDBRs which relies on the self-assembling properties of the block copolymer poly(isoprene-block-ethylene oxide) (PI-b-PEO) in combination with sol-gel chemistry. The interplay between structure directing organic host and co-assembled inorganic guest allows the fine tuning of refractive index in the outcome material. The refractive index diff erence between the high and low porosity layer can be as high as 0.4, with the optical interfaces being well de fined. Following a 30 min annealing protocol after each layer deposition enables the fast and reliable stacking of MDBRs which exhibit a continuous TiO2 network with large accessible pores and high optical quality.

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This publication is based on work supported in part by Award No. KUS-C1-018-02, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the EPSRC (EP/F056702/1 and EP/F065884/1), the Department of Energy (DE-FG02 87ER45298) through the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute (CFCI) and the National Science Foundation (DMR-0605856). M.S. was supported by the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute and the Energy Materials Center at Cornell (EMC2), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Offi ce of Science, Offi ce of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001086

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2011-09-12

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Polymer; self assembly; porosity; Bragg reflector; photonic crystal; TiO2

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Active Photonic Materials IV, 8095, Sept 12, 2013, 80951-80959

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