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Free‐Standing Materials: Free‐Standing Photonic Glasses Fabricated in a Centrifugal Field (Small 34/2017)
Author(s) -
Chen Mengdi,
Fischli Danja,
Schertel Lukas,
Aubry Geoffroy J.,
Häusele Benedikt,
Polarz Sebastian,
Maret Georg,
Cölfen Helmut
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770186
Subject(s) - photonics , materials science , colloid , photonic crystal , field (mathematics) , nanotechnology , sedimentation , optics , optoelectronics , physics , chemical engineering , paleontology , mathematics , sediment , pure mathematics , engineering , biology
In article number 1701392 , Helmut Cölfen and co‐workers, as a first prepare freestanding photonic glasses with controllable disorder/structure by sedimentation in a centrifugal field. A proof of principle photon time of flight experiment demonstrates the good quality and promise of the obtained colloidal glasses. Until now, light localization phenomena had been predicted but never observed in 3D materials, largely due to very few satisfactory materials available for study.