TY - JOUR
T1 - Organic-inorganic nanohybridization by block copolymer thin films
AU - Kim, Dong Ha
AU - Sun, Zaicheng
AU - Russell, Thomas P.
AU - Knoll, Wolfgang
AU - Gutmann, Jochen S.
PY - 2005/7
Y1 - 2005/7
N2 - A simple route for fabricating highly ordered organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures, using polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer (PS-b-PEO) thin films coupled with sol-gel chemistry, is presented. Hexagonally packed arrays of titania nanodomains were generated by one-step spin-coating from solutions containing a titania precursor and PS-b-PEO, where the precursor was selectively incorporated into the PEO domain. The PS-b-PEO template was subsequently removed by UV treatment, leaving behind a highly dense array of hexagonally packed titania dots. The size of the dots, as well as the lattice spacing of the array, could be fine-tuned by simply controlling the relative amount of sol-gel precursor to PS-WPEO.
AB - A simple route for fabricating highly ordered organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures, using polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) diblock copolymer (PS-b-PEO) thin films coupled with sol-gel chemistry, is presented. Hexagonally packed arrays of titania nanodomains were generated by one-step spin-coating from solutions containing a titania precursor and PS-b-PEO, where the precursor was selectively incorporated into the PEO domain. The PS-b-PEO template was subsequently removed by UV treatment, leaving behind a highly dense array of hexagonally packed titania dots. The size of the dots, as well as the lattice spacing of the array, could be fine-tuned by simply controlling the relative amount of sol-gel precursor to PS-WPEO.
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.200400462
DO - 10.1002/adfm.200400462
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:22944448023
SN - 1616-301X
VL - 15
SP - 1160
EP - 1164
JO - Advanced Functional Materials
JF - Advanced Functional Materials
IS - 7
ER -