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Droumaguet BL, Grande D. Diblock and Triblock Copolymers as Nanostructured Precursors to Functional Nanoporous Materials: From Design to Application. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:58023-58040. [PMID: 37906520 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c09859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Block copolymers have gained tremendous interest from the scientific community in the last two decades. These macromolecular architectures indeed constitute ideal nanostructured precursors for the generation of nanoporous materials meant for various high added value applications. The parallel emergence of controlled polymerization techniques has notably enabled to finely control their molecular features to confer them with unique structural and physicochemical properties, such as low dispersity values (Đ), well-defined volume fractions, and controlled functionality. The nanostructuration and ordering of diblock or triblock copolymers, which can be achieved through various experimental techniques, including channel die processing, solvent vapor or thermal annealing, nonsolvent-induced phase separation or concomitant self-assembly, and nonsolvent-induced phase separation, allows for the preparation of orientated microphase-separated copolymers whose morphology is dictated by three main factors, i.e., Flory-Huggins interaction parameter between constitutive blocks, volume fraction of the blocks, and polymerization degree. This review article provides an overview of the actual state of the art regarding the preparation of functional nanoporous materials from either diblock or triblock copolymers. It will also highlight the major applications of such peculiar materials.
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- Benjamin Le Droumaguet
- Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE), UMR 7182, 2 rue Henri Dunant, Thiais 94320, France
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- Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est (ICMPE), UMR 7182, 2 rue Henri Dunant, Thiais 94320, France
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Grandes Reyes CF, Ha S, Kim KT. Synthesis and applications of polymer cubosomes and hexosomes. Journal of Polymer Science 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20230053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/20/2023]
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- Department of Chemistry Seoul National University Seoul Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry Seoul National University Seoul Republic of Korea
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Xiang L, Li Q, Li C, Yang Q, Xu F, Mai Y. Block Copolymer Self-Assembly Directed Synthesis of Porous Materials with Ordered Bicontinuous Structures and Their Potential Applications. Adv Mater 2023; 35:e2207684. [PMID: 36255138 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202207684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Porous materials with their ordered bicontinuous structures have attracted great interest owing to ordered periodic structures as well as 3D interconnected network and pore channels. Bicontinuous structures may favor efficient mass diffusion to the interior of materials, thus increasing the utilization ratio of active sites. In addition, ordered bicontinuous structures confer materials with exceptional optical and magnetic properties, including tunable photonic bandgap, negative refraction, and multiple equivalent magnetization configurations. The attractive structural advantages and physical properties have inspired people to develop strategies for preparing bicontinuous-structured porous materials. Among a few synthetic approaches, the self-assembly of block copolymers represents a versatile strategy to prepare various bicontinuous-structured functional materials with pore sizes and lattice parameters ranging from 1 to 500 nm. This article overviews progress in this appealing area, with an emphasis on the synthetic strategies, the structural control (including topologies, pore sizes, and unit cell parameters), and their potential applications in energy storage and conversion, metamaterials, photonic crystals, cargo delivery and release, nanoreactors, and biomolecule selection.
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- Luoxing Xiang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Xu Z, Dong Q, Zhang L, Li W. Enhanced dielectric permittivity of hierarchically double-gyroid nanocomposites via macromolecular engineering of block copolymers. Nanoscale 2022; 14:15275-15280. [PMID: 36222383 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr04516h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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It is a challenging task to realize the periodically bicontinuous gyroid nanostructures of flexible nanocomposites with high loading of functionalized nanoparticles, which could exhibit high dielectric permittivity for energy storage and electronic devices. Herein, with the aid of the concept of macromolecular engineering, we propose novel nanocomposites, composed of A'(A''B)n miktoarm star copolymers and nanoparticles, to obtain a double-gyroid structure through self-consistent field theory coupled with density functional theory. By tailoring the architecture of this copolymer, a large window of the double-gyroid phase extending to a high loading concentration of nanoparticles is achieved, leading to a hierarchical structure of a percolation network of nanoparticles within the gyroid channels. Furthermore, the finite difference quasielectrostatic method is integrated to reveal an enhanced dielectric permittivity of the structured nanocomposites by increasing the loading concentration of nanoparticles. The simultaneous achievement of an ordered double-gyroid phase and high loading nanoparticles represents a crucial step toward the realization of fully three-dimensional network-like metamaterials via a rational molecular design of nanocomposites.
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- Zhanwen Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
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Lee WY, Chapman DV, Yu F, Tait WRT, Thedford RP, Freychet G, Zhernenkov M, Estroff LA, Wiesner UB. Triblock Terpolymer Thin Film Nanocomposites Enabling Two-Color Optical Super-Resolution Microscopy. Macromolecules 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c01017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Wennie Yun Lee
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- National Synchrotron Light Source-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- National Synchrotron Light Source-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Xiang L, Yuan S, Wang F, Xu Z, Li X, Tian F, Wu L, Yu W, Mai Y. Porous Polymer Cubosomes with Ordered Single Primitive Bicontinuous Architecture and Their Sodium-Iodine Batteries. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:15497-15508. [PMID: 35979963 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Bicontinuous porous materials, which possess 3D interconnected pore channels facilitating a smooth mass transport, have attracted much interest in the fields of energy and catalysis. However, their synthesis remains very challenging. We report a general approach, using polymer cubosomes as the template, for the controllable synthesis of bicontinuous porous polymers with an ordered single primitive (SP) cubic structure, including polypyrrole (SP-PPy), poly-m-phenylenediamine (SP-PmPD), and polydopamine (SP-PDA). Specifically, the resultant SP-PPy had a unit cell parameter of 99 nm, pore diameter of 45 nm, and specific surface area of approximately 60 m2·g-1. As a proof of concept, the I2-adsorbed SP-PPy was employed as the cathode materials of newly emerged Na-I2 batteries, which delivered a record-high specific capacity (235 mA·h·g-1 at 0.5 C), excellent rate capability, and cycling stability (with a low capacity decay of 0.12% per cycle within 400 cycles at 1 C). The advantageous contributions of the bicontinuous structure and I3- adsorption mechanism of SP-PPy were revealed by a combination of ion diffusion experiments and theoretical calculations. This study opens a new avenue for the synthesis of porous polymers with new topologies, broadens the spectrum of bicontinuous-structured materials, and also develops a novel potential application for porous polymers.
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- Luoxing Xiang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED) & Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden, Mommsenstrasse 4, Dresden 01069, Germany
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 239 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai 201204, China
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- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 239 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai 201204, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
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Bian T, Klajn R. Morphology control in crystalline nanoparticle-polymer aggregates. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2021; 1505:191-201. [PMID: 34427923 PMCID: PMC9291468 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Self‐assembly of nanoparticles can be mediated by polymers, but has so far led almost exclusively to nanoparticle aggregates that are amorphous. Here, we employed Coulombic interactions to generate a range of composite materials from mixtures of charged nanoparticles and oppositely charged polymers. The assembly behavior of these nanoparticle/polymer composites depends on their order of addition: polymers added to nanoparticles give rise to stable aggregates, but nanoparticles added to polymers disassemble the initially formed aggregates. The amorphous aggregates were transformed into crystalline ones by transiently increasing the ionic strength of the solution. The morphology of the resulting crystals depended on the length of the polymer: short polymer chains mediated the self‐assembly of nanoparticles into strongly faceted crystals, whereas long chains led to pseudospherical nanoparticle/polymer assemblies, within which the crystalline order of nanoparticles was retained.
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- Tong Bian
- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Yu F, Thedford RP, Hedderick KR, Freychet G, Zhernenkov M, Estroff LA, Nowack KC, Gruner SM, Wiesner UB. Patternable Mesoporous Thin Film Quantum Materials via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly: An Emergent Technology? ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:34732-34741. [PMID: 34279895 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c09085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Recent developments in quantum materials hold promise for revolutionizing energy and information technologies. The use of soft matter self-assembly, for example, by employing block copolymers (BCPs) as structure directing or templating agents, offers facile pathways toward quantum metamaterials with highly tunable mesostructures via scalable solution processing. Here, we report the preparation of patternable mesoporous niobium carbonitride-type thin film superconductors through spin-coating of a hybrid solution containing an amphiphilic BCP swollen by niobia sol precursors and subsequent thermal processing in combination with photolithography. Spin-coated as-made BCP-niobia hybrid thin films on silicon substrates after optional photolithographic definition are heated in air to produce a porous oxide, and subsequently converted in a multistep process to carbonitrides via treatment with high temperatures in reactive gases including ammonia. Grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering suggests the presence of ordered mesostructures in as-made BCP-niobia films without further annealing, consistent with a distorted alternating gyroid morphology that is retained upon thermal treatments. Wide-angle X-ray scattering confirms the synthesis of phase-pure niobium carbonitride nanocrystals with rock-salt lattices within the mesoscale networks. Electrical transport measurements of unpatterned thin films show initial exponential rise in resistivity characteristic of thermal activation in granular systems down to 12.8 K, at which point resistivity drops to zero into a superconducting state. Magnetoresistance measurements determine the superconducting upper critical field to be over 16 T, demonstrating material quality on par with niobium carbonitrides obtained from traditional solid-state synthesis methods. We discuss how such cost-effective and scalable solution-based quantum materials fabrication approaches may be integrated into existing microelectronics processing, promising the emergence of a technology with tremendous academic and industrial potential by combining the capabilities of soft matter self-assembly with quantum materials.
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- Fei Yu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- National Synchrotron Light Source-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- National Synchrotron Light Source-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Beaucage PA, van Dover RB, DiSalvo FJ, Gruner SM, Wiesner U. Superconducting Quantum Metamaterials from Convergence of Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Science. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2006975. [PMID: 33998066 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202006975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Superconducting quantum metamaterials are expected to exhibit a variety of novel properties, but have been a major challenge to prepare as a result of the lack of appropriate synthetic routes to high-quality materials. Here, the discovery of synthesis routes to block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly-directed niobium nitrides and carbonitrides is described. The resulting materials exhibit unusual structure retention even at temperatures as high as 1000 °C and resulting critical temperature, Tc , values comparable to their bulk analogues. Applying the concepts of soft matter self-assembly, it is demonstrated that a series of four different BCP-directed mesostructured superconductors are accessible from a single triblock terpolymer. Resulting materials display a mesostructure-dependent Tc without substantial variation of the XRD-measured lattice parameters. Finally, field-dependent magnetization measurements of a sample with double-gyroid morphology show abrupt jumps comparable in overall behavior to flux avalanches. Results suggest a fruitful convergence of soft and hard condensed matter science.
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- Peter A Beaucage
- Materials Science & Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA
- Materials Science & Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA
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- Materials Science & Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Materials Science & Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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Cao JF, Xu W, Zhang YY, Shu Y, Wang JH. Chondroitin sulfate-enriched hierarchical multichannel polydopamine nanoparticles with ultrahigh sorption capacity for separation of low-density lipoprotein. J Mater Chem B 2021; 9:1980-1987. [PMID: 33595048 DOI: 10.1039/d1tb00012h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A hierarchical multichannel polydopamine (HMPDA) nanoparticle with ample chondroitin sulfate (CS) is fabricated via modification of the silane coupling agent (APTES), followed by grafting CS on the unique bicontinuous open channels of HMPDA through amidation reaction. The obtained nanoparticles with both mesopores and macropores, abbreviated as HMPDA-A-CS15, possess a total pore volume of 0.3398 cm3 g-1, and a large surface area up to 69.10 m2 g-1. The as-prepared HMPDA-A-CS15 exhibits significantly enhanced selectivity for the separation of LDL, which is attributed to the specific recognition effect of CS for LDL. Furthermore, the unique large open channels endow the HMPDA-A-CS15 nanoparticles with a gratifying sorption capacity (1015.2 mg g-1) for LDL adsorption. The captured LDL can be stripped using 0.5% (v/v) ammonia solution with the advantage of easy atomization in downstream mass spectrometry (MS) analyses, and a recovery of 71.7% is achieved. Moreover, HMPDA-A-CS15 is further employed in the enrichment of LDL, which can be separated from the complex serum of simulated hypercholesterolemia patients with a favorable adsorption performance, as illustrated by the SDS-PAGE technique.
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- Jian-Fang Cao
- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China.
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Polymer nanocomposites containing nanoscale fillers are an important class of materials due to their ability to access a wide variety of properties as a function of their composition. In order to take full advantage of these properties, it is critical to control the distribution of nanofillers within the parent polymer matrix, as this structural organization affects how the two constituent components interact with one another. In particular, new methods for generating ordered arrays of nanofillers represent a key underexplored research area, as emergent properties arising from nanoscale ordering can be used to introduce novel functionality currently inaccessible in random composites. The knowledge gained from developing such methods will provide important insight into the thermodynamics and kinetics associated with nanomaterial and polymer assembly. These insights will not only benefit researchers working on new composite materials, but will also deepen our understanding of soft matter systems in general. In this review, we summarize contemporary research efforts in manipulating nanofiller organization in polymer nanocomposites and highlight future challenges and opportunities for constructing ordered nanocomposite materials.
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- Yuping Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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Larder RR, Bennett TM, Blankenship LS, Fernandes JA, Husband BK, Atkinson RL, Derry MJ, Toolan DTW, Centurion HA, Topham PD, Gonçalves RV, Taresco V, Howdle SM. Porous hollow TiO2 microparticles for photocatalysis: exploiting novel ABC triblock terpolymer templates synthesised in supercritical CO2. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py00334h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report the synthesis of phase separated PMMA-b-PS-b-P4VP microparticles via RAFT-mediated dispersion polymerisation in scCO2 and their use as a structure-directing agent for the fabrication of TiO2 microparticles for photocatalysis.
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Wang HF, Chiu PT, Yang CY, Xie ZH, Hung YC, Lee JY, Tsai JC, Prasad I, Jinnai H, Thomas EL, Ho RM. Networks with controlled chirality via self-assembly of chiral triblock terpolymers. Sci Adv 2020; 6:6/42/eabc3644. [PMID: 33055164 PMCID: PMC7556840 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc3644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Nanonetwork-structured materials can be found in nature and synthetic materials. A double gyroid (DG) with a pair of chiral networks but opposite chirality can be formed from the self-assembly of diblock copolymers. For triblock terpolymers, an alternating gyroid (GA) with two chiral networks from distinct end blocks can be formed; however, the network chirality could be positive or negative arbitrarily, giving an achiral phase. Here, by taking advantage of chirality transfer at different length scales, GA with controlled chirality can be achieved through the self-assembly of a chiral triblock terpolymer. With the homochiral evolution from monomer to multichain domain morphology through self-assembly, the triblock terpolymer composed of a chiral end block with a single-handed helical polymer chain gives the chiral network from the chiral end block having a particular handed network. Our real-space analyses reveal the preferred chiral sense of the network in the GA, leading to a chiral phase.
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- Hsiao-Fang Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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- Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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- Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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- Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, No.168, Sec. 1, University Rd., Minhsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62142, R.O.C
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, No.168, Sec. 1, University Rd., Minhsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan 62142, R.O.C
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101, Section 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, R.O.C.
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Yu F, Zhang Q, Thedford RP, Singer A, Smilgies DM, Thompson MO, Wiesner UB. Block Copolymer Self-Assembly-Directed and Transient Laser Heating-Enabled Nanostructures toward Phononic and Photonic Quantum Materials. ACS Nano 2020; 14:11273-11282. [PMID: 32790333 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Three-dimensional (3D) periodic ordering of silicon (Si), an inorganic semiconductor, on the mesoscale was achieved by combining block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly (SA) based mesoporous alternating gyroidal network formation with nonequilibrium transient laser heating. 3D continuous and periodically ordered alternating gyroidal mesoporous carbon thin-film networks were prepared from spin coating, SA under solvent vapor annealing (SVA), and thermal processing of mixtures of a triblock terpolymer with resorcinol resols. The resulting mesoporous thin films, acting as structure-directing templates, were backfilled with amorphous silicon (a-Si). Nanosecond excimer laser heating led to transient Si melts conformally filling the template pores and subsequent Si crystallization. The ordered mesostructure of the organic polymer-derived templates was kept intact, despite being thermally unstable at the high temperatures around the Si melting point (MP), leading to high pattern transfer fidelity. As evidenced by a combination of grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), after template removal, the crystalline Si (c-Si) inherited the inverse network topology of the 3D mesoporous thin-film templates, but with reduced F222 space group symmetry (D2 point group symmetry) from compression of the cubic alternating gyroid lattice. Structures with this reduced symmetry have been proposed as photonic and phononic materials exhibiting topologically protected Weyl points, adding to the emerging field of BCP SA-directed quantum materials promising advanced physics and materials properties.
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- Fei Yu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Bottlebrush block polymers are a promising platform for self-assembled photonic materials, yet most work has been limited to one-dimensional photonic crystals based on the lamellar phase. Here we demonstrate with simulation that nonfrustrated ABC bottlebrush block polymers can be used to self-assemble three-dimensional photonic crystals with complete photonic band gaps. To show this, we have developed a computational approach that couples self-consistent field theory (SCFT) simulations to Maxwell's equations, thereby permitting a direct link between molecular design, self-assembly, and photonic band structures. Using this approach, we calculate the phase diagram of nonfrustrated ABC bottlebrush block polymers and identify regions where the alternating gyroid and alternating diamond phases are stable. By computing the photonic band structures of these phases, we demonstrate that complete band gaps can be found in regions of thermodynamic stability, thereby suggesting a route to realize these photonic materials experimentally. Furthermore, we demonstrate that gap size depends on volume fraction, segregation strength, and polymer architecture, and we identify a design strategy based on symmetry breaking that can achieve band gaps for lower values of refractive index contrast. Taken together, the approach presented here provides a powerful and flexible tool for predicting both the self-assembly and photonic band structures of polymeric materials.
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- Joshua Lequieu
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Hollow gold (Au)-based nanostructures have recently been developed for various applications. However, current nanosynthesis approaches have not yet successfully been implemented for precisely engineering hollow Au-based nanostructures with uniform and well-defined mesoporous shell frameworks. Here, we develop an easy one-pot seedless strategy for fabricating hollow mesoporous AuAg (h-mesoAuAg) nanospheres by combining the galvanic replacement reaction with the surfactant-templated growth. Thiol-terminated multifunctional C22H45N+(CH3)2-C3H6-SH (Cl-) (C22N-SH) as the functional surfactant is the key that facilitates the formation of covalently stable C22N-S-Au(I) and C22N-S-Ag(I) intermediates. Such intermediates template in situ growth of mesoAuAg shell on initially nucleated Ag-rich seeds through the galvanic replacement reaction. Hierarchically hollow/mesoporous nanostructures and corresponding optical responses of h-mesoAuAg are also precisely engineered by tailoring synthetic parameters. With structural and compositional advantages, h-mesoAuAg nanospheres exhibit promising electrochemical performances toward methanol oxidation reaction and nonenzymatic glucose sensor.
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- Hao Lv
- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
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Li C, Li Q, Kaneti YV, Hou D, Yamauchi Y, Mai Y. Self-assembly of block copolymers towards mesoporous materials for energy storage and conversion systems. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:4681-4736. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00021c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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This paper reviews the progress in the field of block copolymer-templated mesoporous materials, including synthetic methods, morphological and pore size control and their potential applications in energy storage and conversion devices.
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- Chen Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200242
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200242
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA)
- National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
- Ibaraki 305-0044
- Japan
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200242
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)
- The University of Queensland
- Brisbane
- Australia
- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Ageing
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shanghai 200242
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The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of nanoparticle ensembles. Various molecular ligands (e.g., small molecules, DNAs, proteins, and polymers) have been used to assist the organization of inorganic nanoparticles into functional structures at different hierarchical levels. Among others, polymers are particularly attractive for use in nanoparticle assembly, because of the complex architectures and rich functionalities of assembled structures enabled by polymers. Polymer-guided assembly of nanoparticles has emerged as a powerful route to fabricate functional materials with desired mechanical, optical, electronic or magnetic properties for a broad range of applications such as sensing, nanomedicine, catalysis, energy storage/conversion, data storage, electronics and photonics. In this review article, we summarize recent advances in the polymer-guided self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles in both bulk thin films and solution, with an emphasis on the role of polymers in the assembly process and functions of resulting nanostructures. Precise control over the location/arrangement, interparticle interaction, and packing of inorganic nanoparticles at various scales are highlighted.
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- Chenglin Yi
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China and Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China.
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Feng X, Burke CJ, Zhuo M, Guo H, Yang K, Reddy A, Prasad I, Ho R, Avgeropoulos A, Grason GM, Thomas EL. Seeing mesoatomic distortions in soft-matter crystals of a double-gyroid block copolymer. Nature 2019; 575:175-9. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1706-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2019] [Accepted: 08/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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She Y, Goodman ED, Lee J, Diroll BT, Cargnello M, Shevchenko EV, Berman D. Block-Co-polymer-Assisted Synthesis of All Inorganic Highly Porous Heterostructures with Highly Accessible Thermally Stable Functional Centers. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11:30154-30162. [PMID: 31353888 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b09991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Here, we propose a simple approach for the design of highly porous multicomponent heterostructures by infiltration of block-co-polymer templates with inorganic precursors in swelling solvents followed by gas-phase sequential infiltration synthesis and thermal annealing. This approach can prepare conformal coatings, free-standing membranes, and powders consisting of uniformly sized metal or metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) well dispersed in a porous oxide matrix. We employed this new, versatile synthetic concept to synthesize catalytically active heterostructures of uniformly dispersed ∼4.3 nm PdO nanoparticles accessible through three-dimensional pore networks of the alumina support. Importantly, such materials reveal high resistance against sintering at 800 °C, even at relatively high loadings of NPs (∼10 wt %). At the same time, such heterostructures enable high mass transport due to highly interconnected nature of the pores. The surface of synthesized nanoparticles in the porous matrix is highly accessible, which enables their good catalytic performance in methane and carbon monoxide oxidation. In addition, we demonstrate that this approach can be utilized to synthesize heterostructures consisting of different types of NPs on a highly porous support. Our results show that swelling-based infiltration provides a promising route toward the robust and scalable synthesis of multicomponent structures.
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- Yunlong She
- Materials Science and Engineering Department and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle , Denton , Texas 76203 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle , Denton , Texas 76203 , United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Avenue , Argonne , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Center for Nanoscale Materials , Argonne National Laboratory , 9700 S. Cass Avenue , Argonne , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute , University of North Texas , 1155 Union Circle , Denton , Texas 76203 , United States
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Lv H, Xu D, Henzie J, Feng J, Lopes A, Yamauchi Y, Liu B. Mesoporous gold nanospheres via thiolate-Au(i) intermediates. Chem Sci 2019; 10:6423-6430. [PMID: 31367304 PMCID: PMC6615434 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc01728c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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This manuscript reports a facile yet effective surfactant-templated synthesis methodology to grow in situ metallic gold mesoporous nanospheres for methanol electrooxidation.
Mesoporous gold (mesoAu) nanospheres support enhanced (electro)catalytic performance owing to their three-dimensional (3D) interior mesochannels that expose abundant active sites and facilitate electron/mass transfers. Although various porous Nanostructured Au has been fabricated by electrochemical reduction, alloying–dealloying and hard/soft templating methods, successful synthesis of mesoAu nanospheres with tailorable sizes and porosities remains a big challenge. Here we describe a novel surfactant-directed synthetic route to fabricate mesoAu nanospheres with 3D interconnected mesochannels by using the amphiphilic surfactant of C22H45N+(CH3)2–C3H6–SH (Cl–) (C22N–SH) as the mesopore directing agent. C22N–SH can not only self-reduce trivalent Au(iii)Cl4– to monovalent Au(i), but also form polymeric C22N–S–Au(i) intermediates via covalent bonds. These C22N–S–Au(i) intermediates facilitate the self-assembly into spherical micelles and inhibit the mobility of Au precursors, enabling the crystallization nucleation and growth of the mesoAu nanospheres via in situ chemical reduction. The synthetic strategy can be further extended to tailor the sizes/porosities and surface optical properties of the mesoAu nanospheres. The mesoAu nanospheres exhibit remarkably enhanced mass/specific activity and improved stability in methanol electrooxidation, demonstrating far better performance than non-porous Au nanoparticles and previously reported Au nanocatalysts. The synthetic route differs markedly from other long-established soft-templating approaches, providing a new avenue to grow metal nanocrystals with desirable nanostructures and functions.
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- Hao Lv
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries , Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials , School of Chemistry and Materials Science , Nanjing Normal University , Nanjing , Jiangsu 210023 , China .
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries , Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials , School of Chemistry and Materials Science , Nanjing Normal University , Nanjing , Jiangsu 210023 , China .
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering , College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Qingdao University of Science and Technology , Qingdao 266042 , China.,International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Riverside , California 92521 , USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02139 , USA
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering , College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Qingdao University of Science and Technology , Qingdao 266042 , China.,School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) , The University of Queensland , Brisbane , QLD 4072 , Australia . .,Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources , Kyung Hee University , 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu , Yongin-si , Gyeonggi-do 446-701 , South Korea
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Power Batteries , Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials , School of Chemistry and Materials Science , Nanjing Normal University , Nanjing , Jiangsu 210023 , China .
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Leffler VB, Mayr L, Paciok P, Du H, Dunin-Borkowski RE, Dulle M, Förster S. Controlled Assembly of Block Copolymer Coated Nanoparticles in 2D Arrays. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:8541-8545. [PMID: 31081290 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201901913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The defined assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) in polymer matrices is an important prerequisite for next-generation functional materials. A promising approach to control NP positions in polymer matrices at the nanometer scale is the use of block copolymers. It allows the selective deposition of NPs in nanodomains, but the final defined and ordered positioning of the NPs within the domains has not been possible. This can now be achieved by coating NPs with block copolymers. The self-assembly of block copolymer-coated NPs directly leads to ordered microdomains containing ordered NP arrays with exactly one NP per unit cell. By variation of the grafting density, the inter-nanoparticle distance can be controlled from direct NP surface contact to surface separations of several nanometers, determined by the thickness of the polymer shell. The method can be applied to a wide variety of block copolymers and NPs and is thus suitable for a broad range of applications.
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- Vanessa B Leffler
- JCNS-1/ ICS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Physikalische Chemie I, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- ER-C-1/ PGI-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- ER-C-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany.,GFE, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- JCNS-1/ ICS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany
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- JCNS-1/ ICS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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Leffler VB, Mayr L, Paciok P, Du H, Dunin‐Borkowski RE, Dulle M, Förster S. Controlled Assembly of Block Copolymer Coated Nanoparticles in 2D Arrays. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201901913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Vanessa B. Leffler
- JCNS-1/ ICS-1Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 52425 Jülich Germany
- Institute of Physical ChemistryRWTH Aachen University 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Physikalische Chemie IUniversität Bayreuth Universitätsstr. 30 95440 Bayreuth Germany
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- ER-C-1/ PGI-5Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 52425 Jülich Germany
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- ER-C-2Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 52425 Jülich Germany
- GFERWTH Aachen University 52074 Aachen Germany
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- JCNS-1/ ICS-1Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 52425 Jülich Germany
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- JCNS-1/ ICS-1Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH 52425 Jülich Germany
- Institute of Physical ChemistryRWTH Aachen University 52074 Aachen Germany
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Li C, Iqbal M, Jiang B, Wang Z, Kim J, Nanjundan AK, Whitten AE, Wood K, Yamauchi Y. Pore-tuning to boost the electrocatalytic activity of polymeric micelle-templated mesoporous Pd nanoparticles. Chem Sci 2019; 10:4054-4061. [PMID: 31015946 PMCID: PMC6457336 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc03911a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2018] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Understanding how mesoporous noble metal architectures affect electrocatalytic performance is very important for the rational design and preparation of high-performance electrocatalysts.
Understanding how mesoporous noble metal architectures affect electrocatalytic performance is very important for the rational design and preparation of high-performance electrocatalysts. Herein, by using polymeric micelle-assembled structures as templates, mesoporous Pd nanoparticles with tunable porous constructions are synthesized by simply tuning the solvent compositions. The effect of porous Pd nanoparticles on the electrocatalytic performance is thoroughly studied. Their superior electrocatalytic activity can be attributed to the mass transport efficiency and open porous structures.
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- Cuiling Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 100081 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering , College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) , Qingdao 266042 , China.,International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) , National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) , 1-1 Namiki , Tsukuba , Ibaraki 305-0044 , Japan
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering , College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) , Qingdao 266042 , China.,School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) , University of Queensland , Brisbane , QLD 4072 , Australia .
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) , University of Queensland , Brisbane , QLD 4072 , Australia .
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) , New Illawarra Rd, Lucas Heights , NSW 2234 , Australia
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) , New Illawarra Rd, Lucas Heights , NSW 2234 , Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Eco-chemical Engineering , College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST) , Qingdao 266042 , China.,School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) , University of Queensland , Brisbane , QLD 4072 , Australia . .,Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources , Kyung Hee University , 1732 Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu , Yongin-si , Gyeonggi-do 446-701 , South Korea
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- Kwan Wee Tan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Zhang Q, Gu J, Zhang L, Lin J. Diverse chiral assemblies of nanoparticles directed by achiral block copolymers via nanochannel confinement. Nanoscale 2019; 11:474-484. [PMID: 30566160 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr07036a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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It is a challenging task to realize large-area manufacture of chiral geometries of nanoparticles in solid-state materials, which exhibit strongly chiroptical responses in the visible and near-infrared ranges. Herein, novel nanocomposites, made from mixtures of achiral block copolymers and nanoparticles in a geometrically confined environment, are conceptually proposed to construct the chiral assemblies of nanoparticles through a joint theoretical-calculation framework and experimental discussion. It is found that the nanochannel-confined block copolymers self-assemble into a family of intrinsically chiral architectures, which serve as structural scaffolds to direct the chiral arrangement of nanoparticles. Through calculations of chiral order parameters and simulations of discrete dipole approximation, it is further demonstrated that certain members of this family of nanoparticle assemblies exhibit intense chiroptical activity, which can be tailored by the nanochannel radius and the nanoparticle loading. These findings highlight the multiple levels of structural control over a class of chiral assemblies of nanoparticles and the functionalities of emerging materials via careful design and selection of nanocomposites.
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- Qian Zhang
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China.
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Tan KW, Werner JG, Goodman MD, Kim HS, Jung B, Sai H, Braun PV, Thompson MO, Wiesner U. Synthesis and Formation Mechanism of All-Organic Block Copolymer-Directed Templating of Laser-Induced Crystalline Silicon Nanostructures. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2018; 10:42777-42785. [PMID: 30444112 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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This report describes the generation of three-dimensional (3D) crystalline silicon continuous network nanostructures by coupling all-organic block copolymer self-assembly-directed resin templates with low-temperature silicon chemical vapor deposition and pulsed excimer laser annealing. Organic 3D mesoporous continuous-network resin templates were synthesized from the all-organic self-assembly of an ABC triblock terpolymer and resorcinol-formaldehyde resols. Nanosecond pulsed excimer laser irradiation induced the transient melt transformation of amorphous silicon precursors backfilled in the organic template into complementary 3D mesoporous crystalline silicon nanostructures with high pattern fidelity. Mechanistic studies on laser-induced crystalline silicon nanostructure formation revealed that the resin template was carbonized during transient laser-induced heating on the milli- to nanosecond timescales, thereby imparting enhanced thermal and structural stability to support the silicon melt-crystallization process at temperatures above 1250 °C. Photoablation of the resin material under pulsed excimer laser irradiation was mitigated by depositing an amorphous silicon overlayer on the resin template. This approach represents a potential pathway from organic block copolymer self-assembly to alternative functional hard materials with well-ordered 3D morphologies for potential hybrid photovoltaics, photonic, and energy storage applications.
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- Kwan Wee Tan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
- School of Materials Science and Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798 , Singapore
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , Illinois 61801 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , Illinois 61801 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , Illinois 61801 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York 14853 , United States
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Ma K, Spoth KA, Cong Y, Zhang D, Aubert T, Turker MZ, Kourkoutis LF, Mendes E, Wiesner U. Early Formation Pathways of Surfactant Micelle Directed Ultrasmall Silica Ring and Cage Structures. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17343-17348. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Kai Ma
- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
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- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Advanced Soft Matter, Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Van der Maasweg 9, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Materials Science Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Volker Abetz
- Institute of Polymer Research; Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Max-Planck-Straße 1 21502 Geesthacht Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry; University of Hamburg; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6 20146 Hamburg Germany
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- Polymer Theory; Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research; Ackermannweg 10 55128 Mainz Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics; Georg-August University of Göttingen; Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1 37077 Göttingen Germany
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- Institute of Physics; Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg; Hermann-Herder-Str. 3 79104 Freiburg Germany
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Jinnai H, Higuchi T, Zhuge X, Kumamoto A, Batenburg KJ, Ikuhara Y. Three-Dimensional Visualization and Characterization of Polymeric Self-Assemblies by Transmission Electron Microtomography. Acc Chem Res 2017; 50:1293-1302. [PMID: 28525260 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.7b00103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Self-assembling structures and their dynamical processes in polymeric systems have been investigated using three-dimensional transmission electron microscopy (3D-TEM). Block copolymers (BCPs) self-assemble into nanoscale periodic structures called microphase-separated structures, a deep understanding of which is important for creating nanomaterials with superior physical properties, such as high-performance membranes with well-defined pore size and high-density data storage media. Because microphase-separated structures have become increasingly complicated with advances in precision polymerization, characterizing these complex morphologies is becoming increasingly difficult. Thus, microscopes capable of obtaining 3D images are required. In this article, we demonstrate that 3D-TEM is an essential tool for studying BCP nanostructures, especially those self-assembled during dynamical processes and under confined conditions. The first example is a dynamical process called order-order transitions (OOTs). Upon changing temperature or pressure or applying an external field, such as a shear flow or electric field, BCP nanostructures transform from one type of structure to another. The OOTs are examined by freezing the specimens in the middle of the OOT and then observing the boundary structures between the preexisting and newly formed nanostructures in three-dimensions. In an OOT between the bicontinuous double gyroid and hexagonally packed cylindrical structures, two different types of epitaxial phase transition paths are found. Interestingly, the paths depend on the direction of the OOT. The second example is BCP self-assemblies under confinement that have been examined by 3D-TEM. A variety of intriguing and very complicated 3D morphologies can be formed even from the BCPs that self-assemble into simple nanostructures, such as lamellar and cylindrical structures in the bulk (in free space). Although 3D-TEM is becoming more frequently used for detailed morphological investigations, it is generally used to study static nanostructures. Although OOTs are dynamical processes, the actual experiment is done in the static state, through a detailed morphological study of a snapshot taken during the OOT. Developing time-dependent nanoscale 3D imaging has become a hot topic. Here, the two main problems preventing the development of in situ electron tomography for polymer materials are addressed. First, the staining protocol often used to enhance contrast for electrons is replaced by a new contrast enhancement based on chemical differences between polymers. In this case, no staining is necessary. Second, a new 3D reconstruction algorithm allows us to obtain a high-contrast, quantitative 3D image from fewer projections than is required for the conventional algorithm to achieve similar contrast, reducing the number of projections and thus the electron beam dose. Combining these two new developments is expected to open new doors to 3D in situ real-time structural observation of polymer materials.
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- Hiroshi Jinnai
- Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1
Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Institute
of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1
Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam 1098 XG, The Netherlands
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- Institute
of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam 1098 XG, The Netherlands
- Mathematical
Institute, Leiden University, RA Leiden 2300, The Netherlands
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- Institute
of Engineering Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2-11-16 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Saito H, Aoyanagi Y, Mihara T, Tanaka T, Higuchi T, Morita H, Jinnai H. Direct three-dimensional imaging of the fracture of fiber-reinforced plastic under uniaxial extension: Effect of adhesion between fibers and matrix. POLYMER 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.01.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Wagner T, Oded M, Shenhar R, Böker A. Two-dimensionally ordered AuNP array formation via microcontact printing on lamellar diblock copolymer films. POLYM ADVAN TECHNOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/pat.3853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Tom Wagner
- DWI - Leibniz Institut für Interaktive Materialien; Forckenbeckstraße 50 D-52056 Aachen Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel 9190401
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- Institute of Chemistry and the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem Israel 9190401
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- Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Polymerforschung IAP, Lehrstuhl für Polymermaterialien und Polymertechnologien; Universität Potsdam; Geiselbergstraße 69 14476 Potsdam Germany
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McKenzie BE, de Visser JF, Portale G, Hermida-Merino D, Friedrich H, Bomans PHH, Bras W, Monaghan OR, Holder SJ, Sommerdijk NAJM. The evolution of bicontinuous polymeric nanospheres in aqueous solution. Soft Matter 2016; 12:4113-4122. [PMID: 27055859 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00053c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Complex polymeric nanospheres in aqueous solution are desirable for their promising potential in encapsulation and templating applications. Understanding how they evolve in solution enables better control of the final structures. By unifying insights from cryoTEM and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), we present a mechanism for the development of bicontinuous polymeric nanospheres (BPNs) in aqueous solution from a semi-crystalline comb-like block copolymer that possesses temperature-responsive functionality. During the initial stages of water addition to THF solutions of the copolymer the aggregates are predominantly vesicles; but above a water content of 53% irregular aggregates of phase separated material appear, often microns in diameter and of indeterminate shape. We also observe a cononsolvency regime for the copolymer in THF-water mixtures from 22 to 36%. The structured large aggregates gradually decrease in size throughout dialysis, and the BPNs only appear upon cooling the fully aqueous dispersions from 35 °C to 5 °C. Thus, the final BPNs are ultimately the result of a reversible temperature-induced morphological transition.
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- B E McKenzie
- Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry and Soft Matter Cryo-TEM Research Unit, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Higuchi T, Sugimori H, Yabu H, Jinnai H. Controlled incorporation behavior of gold nanoparticles into ABC triblock terpolymer with double-helical morphology. Polym J 2016; 48:509-15. [DOI: 10.1038/pj.2016.19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Saito Y, Higuchi T, Jinnai H, Hara M, Nagano S, Matsuo Y, Yabu H. Silver Nanoparticle Arrays Prepared by In Situ Automatic Reduction of Silver Ions in Mussel-Inspired Block Copolymer Films. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Yuta Saito
- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM); Tohoku University; 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku Sendai 980-8577 Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM); Tohoku University; 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku Sendai 980-8577 Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM); Tohoku University; 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku Sendai 980-8577 Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering; Nagoya University; Furocho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya 464-8603 Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering; Nagoya University; Furocho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya 464-8603 Japan
- The Nagoya University Venture Business Laboratory; Nagoya University; Furocho, Chikusa-Ku Nagoya 464-8603 Japan
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- Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES); Hokkaido University; N21W10 Sapporo 001-0021 Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM); Tohoku University; 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-Ku Sendai 980-8577 Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO); Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); 4-1-8 Kawaguchi Saitama 332-0012 Japan
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Ong GK, Williams TE, Singh A, Schaible E, Helms BA, Milliron DJ. Ordering in Polymer Micelle-Directed Assemblies of Colloidal Nanocrystals. Nano Lett 2015; 15:8240-4. [PMID: 26579565 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Assembly of presynthesized nanocrystals by block copolymer micelles can be rationalized by the incorporation of nanocrystals into micellar coronas of constant width. As determined by quantitative analysis using small-angle X-ray scattering, high loading of small nanocrystals yields composites exhibiting order on two length scales, whereas intermediate loading of nanocrystals larger than the coronal width produces single nanocrystal networks. The resulting structures obey expectations of thermodynamically driven assembly on the nanocrystal length scale, whereas kinetically frozen packing principles dictate order on the polymer micelle length scale.
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- Gary K Ong
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Graduate Group in Applied Science & Technology, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- The Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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The ability to control and modulate the interaction of light with matter is crucial to achieve desired optical properties including reflection, transmission, and selective polarization. Photonic materials rely upon precise control over the composition and morphology to establish periodic interactions with light on the wavelength and sub-wavelength length scales. Supramolecular assembly provides a natural solution allowing the encoding of a desired 3D architecture into the chemical building blocks and assembly conditions. The compatibility with solution processing and low-overhead manufacturing is a significant advantage over more complex approaches such as lithography or colloidal assembly. Here we review recent advances on photonic architectures derived from block copolymers and highlight the influence and complexity of processing pathways. Notable examples that have emerged from this unique synthesis platform include Bragg reflectors, antireflective coatings, and chiral metamaterials. We further predict expanded photonic capabilities and limits of these approaches in light of future developments of the field.
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- Morgan Stefik
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
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Löbling TI, Hiekkataipale P, Hanisch A, Bennet F, Schmalz H, Ikkala O, Gröschel AH, Müller AH. Bulk morphologies of polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-block-poly(tert-butyl methacrylate) triblock terpolymers. POLYMER 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Zhu C, Du D, Eychmüller A, Lin Y. Engineering Ordered and Nonordered Porous Noble Metal Nanostructures: Synthesis, Assembly, and Their Applications in Electrochemistry. Chem Rev 2015; 115:8896-943. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 502] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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- Chengzhou Zhu
- School
of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-2920, United States
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- School
of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-2920, United States
- Key
Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of the Ministry of Education,
College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, P. R. China
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- School
of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-2920, United States
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Cowman CD, Padgett E, Tan KW, Hovden R, Gu Y, Andrejevic N, Muller D, Coates GW, Wiesner U. Multicomponent Nanomaterials with Complex Networked Architectures from Orthogonal Degradation and Binary Metal Backfilling in ABC Triblock Terpolymers. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:6026-33. [PMID: 25836760 PMCID: PMC4434530 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Selective
degradation of block copolymer templates and backfilling
the open mesopores is an effective strategy for the synthesis of nanostructured
hybrid and inorganic materials. Incorporation of more than one type
of inorganic material in orthogonal ways enables the synthesis of
multicomponent nanomaterials with complex yet well-controlled architectures;
however, developments in this field have been limited by the availability
of appropriate orthogonally degradable block copolymers for use as
templates. We report the synthesis and self-assembly into cocontinuous
network structures of polyisoprene-block-polystyrene-block-poly(propylene carbonate) where the polyisoprene and
poly(propylene carbonate) blocks can be orthogonally removed from
the polymer film. Through sequential block etching and backfilling
the resulting mesopores with different metals, we demonstrate first
steps toward the preparation of three-component polymer–inorganic
hybrid materials with two distinct metal networks. Multiblock copolymers
in which two blocks can be degraded and backfilled independently of
each other, without interference from the other, may be used in a
wide range of applications requiring periodically ordered complex
multicomponent nanoarchitectures.
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- Christina D Cowman
- †Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- ‡Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- §Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Bard Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- ‡Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- §Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Bard Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- ‡Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- ‡Department of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Clark Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Baker Laboratory, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- §Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Bard Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Li C, Dag Ö, Dao TD, Nagao T, Sakamoto Y, Kimura T, Terasaki O, Yamauchi Y. Electrochemical synthesis of mesoporous gold films toward mesospace-stimulated optical properties. Nat Commun 2015; 6:6608. [PMID: 25799072 PMCID: PMC4382992 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Accepted: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Mesoporous gold (Au) films with tunable pores are expected to provide fascinating optical properties stimulated by the mesospaces, but they have not been realized yet because of the difficulty of controlling the Au crystal growth. Here, we report a reliable soft-templating method to fabricate mesoporous Au films using stable micelles of diblock copolymers, with electrochemical deposition advantageous for precise control of Au crystal growth. Strong field enhancement takes place around the center of the uniform mesopores as well as on the walls between the pores, leading to the enhanced light scattering as well as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which is understandable, for example, from Babinet principles applied for the reverse system of nanoparticle ensembles.
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- Cuiling Li
- World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
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- 1] World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan [2] PRESTO and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan [3] Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- 1] World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan [2] PRESTO and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- 1] PRESTO and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan [2] Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Shimoshidami, Moriyama, Nagoya 463-8560, Japan
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- 1] Graduate School of EEWS (BK21Plus), KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea [2] Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, EXSELENT, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- 1] World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan [2] Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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McKenzie BE, Friedrich H, Wirix MJM, de Visser JF, Monaghan OR, Bomans PHH, Nudelman F, Holder SJ, Sommerdijk NAJM. Controlling internal pore sizes in bicontinuous polymeric nanospheres. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:2457-61. [PMID: 25640026 PMCID: PMC4471611 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Complex polymeric nanospheres were formed in water from comb-like amphiphilic block copolymers. Their internal morphology was determined by three-dimensional cryo-electron tomographic analysis. Varying the polymer molecular weight (MW) and the hydrophilic block weight content allowed for fine control over the internal structure. Construction of a partial phase diagram allowed us to determine the criteria for the formation of bicontinuous polymer nanosphere (BPN), namely for copolymers with MW of up to 17 kDa and hydrophilic weight fractions of ≤0.25; and varying the organic solvent to water ratio used in their preparation allowed for control over nanosphere diameters from 70 to 460 nm. Significantly, altering the block copolymer hydrophilic-hydrophobic balance enabled control of the internal pore diameter of the BPNs from 10 to 19 nm.
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- Beulah E McKenzie
- Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry and Soft Matter Cryo-TEM Research Unit, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven (The Netherlands); Functional Materials Group, School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NH (UK)
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McKenzie BE, Friedrich H, Wirix MJM, de Visser JF, Monaghan OR, Bomans PHH, Nudelman F, Holder SJ, Sommerdijk NAJM. Controlling Internal Pore Sizes in Bicontinuous Polymeric Nanospheres. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201408811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Mesoporous transition metal nitrides are interesting materials for energy conversion and storage applications due to their conductivity and durability. We present ordered mixed titanium-niobium (8:2, 1:1) nitrides with gyroidal network structures synthesized from triblock terpolymer structure-directed mixed oxides. The materials retain both macroscopic integrity and mesoscale ordering despite heat treatment up to 600 °C, without a rigid carbon framework as a support. Furthermore, the gyroidal lattice parameters were varied by changing polymer molar mass. This synthesis strategy may prove useful in generating a variety of monolithic ordered mesoporous mixed oxides and nitrides for electrode and catalyst materials.
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- Spencer W. Robbins
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), and Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
- Address correspondence to
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