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Inside Front Cover: Curling Colloidal Photonic Crystals (Adv. Mater. 18/2006)
Author(s) -
Vekris E.,
Ozin G. A.,
Kitaev V.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200690074
Subject(s) - curling , materials science , overlayer , curvature , photonic crystal , colloidal crystal , front cover , infiltration (hvac) , polymer , electron microscope , composite material , colloid , nanotechnology , optics , optoelectronics , chemical engineering , cover (algebra) , condensed matter physics , geometry , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , engineering
The inside cover features a schematic illustration (right) and three representative electron microscopy images (left) of photonic‐crystal strips with controlled curvature. As reported by Kitaev and co‐workers on p. 2481, the curvature is induced by infiltration of polymer opal with alkoxide precursors to attain an overlayer that experiences controllable shrinkage upon hydrolysis. Both continuity and high structural order are perfectly preserved throughout precursor infiltration and polymer microsphere removal.