Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The beautiful colors we observe in nature, such as butterfly wing scales, reveal how nature precisely controls the propagation of light by creating photonic crystals, such as the single gyroid network. Recreating these chiral networks in synthetic materials, especially self-assembled block polymers, offers great potential applications as next-generation optical devices. However, single gyroid is thermodynamically unfavorable in linear diblock copolymers owing to the molecular packing mechanisms. This study uses self-consistent field theory to elucidate the design principles for stabilizing single gyroid in a synthetically tractable block copolymer architecture.
Source: Physical Review Materials
Authors: So Jung Park, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman
Institution: University of Minnesota
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4387781735