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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Homogeneous polymer blend microparticles with a tunable refractive index
journal, January 1999
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- Optics Letters, Vol. 24, Issue 3
Probing Phase-Separation Behavior in Polymer-Blend Microparticles: Effects of Particle Size and Polymer Mobility
journal, October 1999
- Barnes, M. D.; Ng, K. C.; Fukui, K.
- Macromolecules, Vol. 32, Issue 21
Polymer microparticle arrays from electrodynamically focused microdroplet streams
journal, June 2000
- Ng, K. C.; Ford, J. V.; Jacobson, S. C.
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