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Title: Design of intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures utilizing smart hydrogel

Abstract

Intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures have been designed by combining the self-assembly properties of monodisperse polymer colloidal spheres with thermoshrinking properties of crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels. The periodic array structures dispersed in aqueous medium are very sensitive to environmental stimuli such as temperature and ionic species. These systems displayed dramatic and reversible optical responses against changes in temperature due to the spatial modulation in the index of refraction of the get spheres in the lattice. Precisely selecting a temperature, the diffraction efficiencies of this system can be turned on-off. The intelligent structures can be used in optical devices to protect optical sensors from high intensity lasers, and will of use in advanced optical device applications.

Authors:
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  2. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (United States); and others
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
370895
Report Number(s):
CONF-960376-
TRN: 96:003805-0957
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Spring national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), New Orleans, LA (United States), 24-28 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 211th ACS national meeting; PB: 2284 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; ACRYLAMIDE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERS; COLLOIDS; LASERS; REFRACTION; SPHERES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE

Citation Formats

Sunkara, H B, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, Penn, B G, and Frazier, D O. Design of intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures utilizing smart hydrogel. United States: N. p., 1996. Web.
Sunkara, H B, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, Penn, B G, & Frazier, D O. Design of intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures utilizing smart hydrogel. United States.
Sunkara, H B, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, Penn, B G, and Frazier, D O. 1996. "Design of intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures utilizing smart hydrogel". United States.
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abstractNote = {Intelligent mesoscale periodic array structures have been designed by combining the self-assembly properties of monodisperse polymer colloidal spheres with thermoshrinking properties of crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels. The periodic array structures dispersed in aqueous medium are very sensitive to environmental stimuli such as temperature and ionic species. These systems displayed dramatic and reversible optical responses against changes in temperature due to the spatial modulation in the index of refraction of the get spheres in the lattice. Precisely selecting a temperature, the diffraction efficiencies of this system can be turned on-off. The intelligent structures can be used in optical devices to protect optical sensors from high intensity lasers, and will of use in advanced optical device applications.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996},
month = {Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1996}
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