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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages 10681-10689Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02517h
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The enhancement of the capillarity fabrication of well-ordered two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) opal photonic crystal is described herein. The quality enhancement and the reduction of the fabrication time are improved by using core@soft adhesive shell (Silica@PolyButylAcrylate) particles dispersed in an organic solvent with a high boiling point. The hybridization by an elastomeric corona polymer, grafted from the SiO2 surface, has offered adhesive properties naturally tunable by changing the polymer state from a solvated to a dry one. Such properties involve drastic changes of the self-assembly behavior and qualities. Their use, as elementary building blocks, for colloidal crystal fabrication have required a high withdrawal rate (up to 4000 mu m s(-1)), i.e. involving a three order of magnitude reduction in time compared to a classic vertical deposition method (1 to 10 mu m s(-1)) and a good control/prediction of the coating thickness can be tuned by varying the withdrawal rate and the particle concentration. In addition, an analysis of the 2D synthetic iridescence of the hybrid photonic crystal was performed under white light, revealing the adhesive shell bridge influence on the dissipation energy of cracks linked to the crystal quality and the photonic properties.
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