Photonic Crystals Fabricated by Block Copolymerization-Induced Microphase Separation

作者：Motokawa Ryuhei^*; Taniguchi Tatsuo^*; Kumada Takayuki; Iida You; Aoyagi Shota; Sasaki Yusuke; Kohri Michinari; Kishikawa Keiki

来源：Macromolecules, 2016, 49(16): 6041-6049.

DOI：10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01190

We present a method for fabricating photonic crystals (PCs) by polymerization-induced microphase separation of block copolymers (BCPs). Molecular weight of BCP for PCs is so large that it has been difficult for conventional solution casting and annealing methods to complete the microphase separation to form periodically ordered submicron structures. Our method overcomes the difficulty by inducing the microphase separation and transitions during the polymerization, when the molecular weight of the BCPs is small enough for the microphase separation and transitions. The microphase-separated structure is then enlarged while maintaining the self-similarity. We succeeded in fabricating PCs with reflection wavelength lambda(m) approximate to 1000 nm and a full width at half-maximum Delta lambda = 0.05 lambda(m) by living-radical bulk block copolymerization of poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-polystyrene.

• 出版日期2016-8-23