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Title: Photonic polymer-blend structures and method for making

Abstract

The present invention comprises the formation of photonic polymer-blend structures having tunable optical and mechanical properties. The photonic polymer-blend structures comprise monomer units of spherical microparticles of a polymer-blend material wherein the spherical microparticles have surfaces partially merged with one another in a robust inter-particle bond having a tunable inter-particle separation or bond length sequentially attached in a desired and programmable architecture. The photonic polymer-blend structures of the present invention can be linked by several hundred individual particles sequentially linked to form complex three-dimensional structures or highly ordered two-dimensional arrays of 3D columns with 2D spacing.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1174924
Patent Number(s):
6,756,117
Application Number:
10/325,112
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, DC)
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2002 Dec 20
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Barnes, Michael D. Photonic polymer-blend structures and method for making. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Barnes, Michael D. Photonic polymer-blend structures and method for making. United States.
Barnes, Michael D. 2004. "Photonic polymer-blend structures and method for making". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1174924.
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abstractNote = {The present invention comprises the formation of photonic polymer-blend structures having tunable optical and mechanical properties. The photonic polymer-blend structures comprise monomer units of spherical microparticles of a polymer-blend material wherein the spherical microparticles have surfaces partially merged with one another in a robust inter-particle bond having a tunable inter-particle separation or bond length sequentially attached in a desired and programmable architecture. The photonic polymer-blend structures of the present invention can be linked by several hundred individual particles sequentially linked to form complex three-dimensional structures or highly ordered two-dimensional arrays of 3D columns with 2D spacing.},
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year = {Tue Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2004},
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Works referenced in this record:

Homogeneous polymer blend microparticles with a tunable refractive index
journal, January 1999


Polymer microparticle arrays from electrodynamically focused microdroplet streams
journal, June 2000