Highly Ordered Dielectric Mirrors via the Self-Assembly of Dendronized Block Copolymers

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• 作者：Victoria A. Piunova ; Garret M. Miyake ; Christopher S. Daeffler ; Raymond A. Weitekamp ; Robert H. Grubbs
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October 16, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：135
• 期：41
• 页码：15609-15616
• 全文大小：424K
• 年卷期：v.135,no.41(October 16, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Dendronized block copolymers were synthesized by ruthenium-mediated ring-opening methathesis polymerization of exo-norbornene functionalized dendrimer monomers, and their self-assembly to dielectric mirrors was investigated. The rigid-rod main-chain conformation of these polymers drastically lowers the energetic barrier for reorganization, enabling their rapid self-assembly to long-range, highly ordered nanostructures. The high fidelity of these dielectric mirrors is attributed to the uniform polymer architecture achieved from the construction of discrete dendritic repeat units. These materials exhibit light-reflecting properties due to the multilayer architecture, presenting an attractive bottom-up approach to efficient dielectric mirrors with narrow band gaps. The wavelength of reflectance scales linearly with block-copolymer molecular weight, ranging from the ultraviolet, through the visible, to the near-infrared. This allows for the modulation of photonic properties through synthetic control of the polymer molecular weight. This work represents a significant advancement in closing the gap between the precision obtained from top-down and bottom-up approaches.