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Proceedings of the All-Russian Conference with Elements of the Scientific School for the Youth "Opal-Like Structures" (St. Petersburg, Russia, May 12-14, 2010)

Direct opal-like structures consisting of monodisperse polymer particles and synthesis of the related inverse structures

A. Yu. Men'shikova^a, N. N. Shevchenko^a, I. V. Bugakov^a, A. V. Yakimanskii^a, A. V. Sel'kin<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
^b Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: Three-dimensional periodic solid-state film structures with a face-centered cubic lattice and a high degree of perfection have been prepared from monodisperse particles of styrene copolymers with methacrylic acid. It has been shown that these structures can be successfully used not only as model objects for studying specific features of light propagation in photonic crystals but also as templates for synthesizing inverse opal-like structures. The influence of the degree of hydrophilization of the surface layer of polymer particles forming a polymer template and the template synthesis conditions on the quality of an inverse opal-like TiO$_2$-based structure has been analyzed.

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2011, 53:6, 1155–1160

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