Gel Immobilization of Centimeter-Sized and Uniform Colloidal Crystals Formed under Temperature Gradient
We report the fabrication of large and high-quality charged colloidal crystals that are incorporated in a polymer hydrogel matrix. The colloidal crystals are prepared by the thermally induced unidirectional crystallization of colloidal silica in coexistence with pyridine, whose dissociation degree i...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Langmuir 2009-01, Vol.25 (1), p.589-593 |
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Zusammenfassung: | We report the fabrication of large and high-quality charged colloidal crystals that are incorporated in a polymer hydrogel matrix. The colloidal crystals are prepared by the thermally induced unidirectional crystallization of colloidal silica in coexistence with pyridine, whose dissociation degree increases with temperature. Their crystal structures are immobilized in the polymer hydrogel matrix by photoinduced polymerizations. The crystals are large sized (maximum dimensions: 1 × 10 × ∼30 mm), and their lattice planes are well oriented and parallel to the gel surface. Furthermore, they have excellent spatial uniformity in the Bragg wavelengths ( |
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ISSN: | 0743-7463 1520-5827 |
DOI: | 10.1021/la8013706 |