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Cover Picture: Precisely Tunable Photonic Crystals From Rapidly Self‐Assembling Brush Block Copolymer Blends (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 45/2012)
Author(s) -
Miyake Garret M.,
Piunova Victoria A.,
Weitekamp Raymond A.,
Grubbs Robert H.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201208084
Subject(s) - copolymer , brush , cover (algebra) , materials science , photonic crystal , block (permutation group theory) , polymer , photonics , polymer brush , self assembly , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , optoelectronics , polymerization , composite material , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , engineering
Molecular brush block copolymers rapidly self‐assemble to photonic crystals that can reflect light from the UV, across the visible, and into the near‐IR region of the spectrum. In their Communication on page 11246 ff., R. H. Grubbs et al. demonstrate that the blending of two different molecular weight brush block copolymers can predictably modulate the sizes of the polymer domains, enabling facile precision tuning of these photonic‐band‐gap materials.