流动控制沉积法制备PMMA叠层光子晶体薄膜及其光学性能研究

采用流动控制沉积法, 通过调控泵速和聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)胶体微球溶液的浓度, 制备出微球排列高度有序且薄膜紧密附着于基底的高质量光子晶体薄膜. 获得了制备高质量PMMA光子晶体薄膜的组装条件范围, 发现在该条件范围内, 当泵速或胶体微球溶液浓度一定时, PMMA光子晶体薄膜的厚度随胶体微球溶液浓度的增加或泵速的降低而增加. 研究了组装条件对PMMA光子晶体薄膜光学性能的影响, 发现光子禁带位置随光子晶体薄膜厚度增加或减少而红移或蓝移. 在此基础上, 控制组装条件得到了不同尺寸微球堆叠而成的叠层光子晶体薄膜, 并研究了其光学性能的变化规律. 结果显示, 叠层光子晶体薄膜的光子禁带峰为各层叠层光子晶体禁带峰的简单叠加, 且峰强度受光入射角方向影响.     

苯乙烯/丙烯酸正丁酯/丙烯酸共聚微球的制备及其性能表征

通过乳液聚合法和无皂乳液聚合法制备了苯乙烯/丙烯酸正丁酯/丙烯酸共聚微球.讨论了乳化剂用量、引发剂用量、功能单体、软硬单体用量比等对微球粒径和形态的影响.利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、傅立叶变换红外光谱仪(FTIR)对微球的粒径、形貌和表面基团进行分析.红外光谱表明,实验室所制备的苯乙烯/丙烯酸正丁酯/丙烯酸共聚微球表面存在丰富的羧基.利用竖片生长法得到自组装的多层胶体微球薄膜.通过对薄膜的反射光谱测量,发现随着湿度的增加,峰位会产生3nm左右的红移.     

P(St-AM)核壳聚合物微球的制备及其光子晶体膜

采用一步乳液聚合法,调节引发剂用量,制备了不同粒径的具有核壳结构的功能性聚(苯乙烯-丙烯酰胺)乳胶微球.用透射电子显微镜表征了乳胶微球的核壳结构和粒径,所制微球的粒径分别为195,217,234和255 nm.用红外光谱对微球的化学成分进行了表征,证实聚丙烯酰胺已包覆在聚苯乙烯外层.通过竖直沉积自组装法制备了聚合物微球的光子晶体薄膜.扫描电子显微镜表征了所制光子晶体膜的表面形貌,反射和透射光谱表征了光子禁带.结果表明,聚合物微球以面心立方紧密堆积,其(111)面与基底平行;微球粒径不同,光子晶体的光子禁带不同.制备了不同光子禁带的光子晶体,禁带分别位于473,515,574和630 nm,相应的薄膜分别呈蓝色、绿色、黄色和红色,对于光子晶体的拓展和应用具有重要的意义.     

微米级胶体晶体可控制备与红外波段光学特征研究

通过调整配方,得到了不同粒径的微米级单分散聚苯乙烯(PS)胶体微球,利用优化的垂直沉积法将PS胶体微球自组装成高质量的蛋白石型光子晶体材料,并通过激光粒度分析仪、扫描电镜和红外光谱仪等实验手段研究其可控制备与红外波段光学特征.其中由1.00和1.20μm PS单分散胶体微球自组装成的三维光子晶体的禁带位置分别为2.25、2.47μm,符合理论计算结果.该材料可改变目标红外波段的辐射特征,未来有望应用于热障涂层材料和红外隐身技术等领域.     

双组分偶氮聚合物胶体球制备及其光致形变行为研究

研究了2种环氧树脂类含4-氨基-4′-硝基偶氮苯和4-氨基-4′-羧基偶氮苯生色团聚合物(BP-AZ-NT、BP-AZ-CA)双组分胶体球的制备和光致形变行为.通过在上述聚合物的四氢呋喃溶液中逐步加水诱导自组装的方法,得到了BP-AZ-CA/BP-AZ-NT双组分胶体球.在上述两种聚合物自组装形成胶体球过程中,较为疏水的BP-AZ-NT分子先发生聚集,而较亲水的BP-AZ-CA则在形成的胶体颗粒表面发生进一步聚集.在胶体球形成过程中,体系的临界水含量(CWC)主要由BP-AZ-NT发生聚集时的水含量决定,双组分胶体球的外层则含较多的BP-AZ-CA分子.比较单组分胶体球与双组分胶体球在线偏振Ar+激光(488nm,100mW/cm2)照射下的形变行为,进一步证实了通过上述方法可以制备BP-AZ-CA和BP-AZ-NT双组份的胶体球;胶体球形变时的初始拉伸速率由胶体球的外层聚合物分子的性质所决定。     

结构与制备条件对两亲性偶氮聚合物胶体球尺寸和光响应性的影响

合成了3种具有不同官能团或官能化度的双亲性多分散偶氮聚合物.系统研究了它们在选择性溶剂中形成聚合物胶体球时,各种因素对胶体球尺寸和光响应性能的影响规律.结果表明,不仅官能团和官能化度对胶体球的尺寸与光响应性有明显影响,具体的制备条件(如初始浓度、沉淀剂加入速率等)对胶体球尺寸和光响应性能也有重要影响.聚合物胶体球的粒径随官能化度的增加而增大;随初始浓度的增加和沉淀剂加入速率的减小而增大.聚合物PEAPE胶体球的光致异构化速率快于PCNPE胶体球的光致异构化速率.聚合物胶体球的光致异构化速率随官能化度的增加而减小;随初始浓度的增加和沉淀剂加入速率的减小而减小.这些影响表现出了明显的规律性.从双亲性聚合物在选择性溶剂中自组装形成胶体球的热力学与动力学因素出发,讨论了上述现象产生的原因.     

磺化聚苯乙烯胶体晶的红外光谱分析

单分散乳胶体系可以通过自组装形成有序的胶体晶结构 ,在窄波段光过滤器[1] 、生物医学传感器[2 ] 、智能化学传感器[3] 等领域具有重要的应用价值 .最近 ,人们以此有序结构作为模板 ,制备了有序孔材料[4～ 7] .另外 ,此有序结构在仿生学如模拟蛋白石等有序结构等方面也具有重要意义[8] .但是 ,一般的单分散体系如聚苯乙烯体系所形成的有序结构都属于硬性材料 ,缺乏对外场的响应特性 .此外 ,微球表面没有功能性基团 ,很难与其它物质兼容 ,这使得其作为模板合成其它复合材料的潜力大大降低 .本实验室通过对聚合物胶体晶进行改性 ,使其成为功…     

蒸发自组装法制备聚苯乙烯胶体晶体

采用乳液聚合法制得亚微米级聚苯乙烯单分散微球,并用蒸发自组装法在乳液气-液界面进行自上而下的层层组装,制得了厚度在450μm以上的三维有序胶体晶体。结果表明,影响胶体晶体有序性的关键因素是对蒸发速度的控制,促使胶体晶体规则排列的最主要作用力为溶液的毛细管力。在胶体晶体组装末期,随着溶剂量的减少,空间阻力逐渐增大,微球对流能力下降,造成胶体晶体的有序性降低。     

Pickering乳滴模板法制备超粒子结构有机/无机杂化微球

Pickering乳滴模板法制备有机/无机杂化的核壳微球越来越引起人们的关注,主要因为该方法制备出的微球具有以无机粒子为壳层的超粒子结构(supracolloidal structure),能够赋予微球独特的功能.胶体粒子在乳滴表面自组装形成有序的球面胶体壳,得到稳定Pickering乳液,固定乳滴表面的胶体粒子来制备核壳结构的微球或者以胶体粒子为壳层的微胶囊(colloidosome).本文综述了我们课题组以Pickering乳滴模板法制备超粒子结构有机/无机杂化微胶囊包括实心微球方面的工作.我们选择具有不同性能、种类的胶体粒子以及具有不同性质和功能的核材料,采用Pickering乳滴模板法,对吸附在乳滴表面的胶体粒子用不同的固定方法制备具有不同结构和性能的微球和微胶囊,利用基于多重Pickering乳液的聚合技术制备双纳米复合的超粒子结构多核聚合物微球.     

三维有序大孔钙钛矿 LaFeO3 催化剂的制备及其催化炭黑颗粒燃烧性能

 采用水油两相双引发剂的无皂乳液聚合法制备了羧基改性的聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯 (PMMA) 聚合物微球, 并以此为模板, 采用胶体晶体模板法制备了三维有序大孔 (3DOM) 钙钛矿 LaFeO3 催化剂. 同时采用柠檬酸络合燃烧法制备了纳米钙钛矿 LaFeO3 催化剂. 通过傅里叶红外光谱、扫描电镜、X 射线衍射和激光粒度仪等方法对样品进行了表征. 采用程序升温氧化反应评价了催化剂对模拟柴油机炭黑颗粒催化燃烧的活性. 结果表明, 制备的羧基改性 PMMA 聚合物微球固含量约为 10%, 表面羧基含量约为 3 mmol/g. 微球粒径分布均匀, 且可通过调节反应条件得到不同的粒径, 可控范围在 300~700 nm. 所制得的 3DOM 钙钛矿 LaFeO3 催化剂以六方有序的方式排列, 其孔径及孔径收缩率分别为 300 nm 和 32%, 大孔孔壁平均厚度约 50 nm. 该催化剂对炭黑颗粒催化燃烧的 T10, T50, T90 和 SmCO2 分别为 340, 412, 458 oC 和 99.8%, 性能优于纳米 LaFeO3 催化剂.     

Synthesis and crystallization of hybrid spherical colloids composed of polystyrene cores and silica shells

The St?ber method has been adopted to prepare hybrid core-shell particles by coating the surfaces of monodisperse polystyrene beads with uniform silica shells. Polystyrene beads with diameters in the range of 0.1-1.0 microm have been successfully demonstrated for use with this process, and the thickness of the silica coating could be controlled in the range of 50-150 nm by adjusting the concentration of tetraethoxysilane, the deposition time, or both. The morphology and surface smoothness of the deposited silica were found to strongly depend on a number of parameters such as the surface functional groups on the polymer beads, the pH value of the medium, and the deposition time. Hollow spheres made of silica could be obtained by selectively removing the polymer cores via calcination in air at an elevated temperature or by wet etching with toluene. These core-shell colloids were also explored as building blocks to fabricate long-range ordered lattices (or colloidal crystals) that exhibited stop bands different from those assembled from spherical colloids purely made of either polystyrene or silica.     

Facile fabrication of free-standing colloidal-crystal films by interfacial self-assembly

This paper reports a rapid and facile method of preparing free-standing colloidal crystals from monodisperse charged polystyrene (PS) microspheres. Mixed solvents (ethanol/water) were used as the dispersion medium in the self-assembly process of colloidal crystals. By a simple "floating self-assembly" method, PS microspheres floated on the surface of liquid and self-assembled into large area of three-dimensional (3D) ordered colloidal crystals within 15 min. Then epichlorohydrin was added in as a cross-linking agent to strengthen the colloidal-crystal film. After cross-linking reactions between the microspheres, the obtained colloidal-crystal film was free-standing and could be easily transferred to other substrates. Using tetrabutyl titanate as a titania precursor, 3D porous TiO(2) materials with rodlike skeletal structure were fabricated from the prepared free-standing colloidal crystal. This work provides a facile method to fabricate free-standing colloidal-crystal film, which can be used as an ideal template for the preparation of porous materials.     

Nonspherical colloidal crystals fabricated by the thermal pressing of colloidal crystal chips

Nonspherical colloids and their ordered arrays may be more attractive in applications such as photonic crystals than their spherical counterparts because of their lower symmetries, although such structures are difficult to achieve. In this letter, we describe the fabrication and characterization of colloidal crystals constructed from nonspherical polyhedrons. We fabricated such nonspherical colloidal crystals by pressing spherical polymer colloidal crystal chips at a temperature slightly lower than the glass-transition temperature (T(g)) of these polymer colloids. During this process, the polymer microspheres were distinctively transformed into polyhedrons according to their crystal structures, whereas the long-range order of the 3D lattice was essentially preserved. Because a working temperature lower than T(g) effectively prevented the colloidal crystals from fusing into films, the spherical colloidal crystals were transformed greatly under pressure, which lead to obvious change in the optical properties of colloidal crystals. Besides their special symmetry and optical properties, these nonspherical colloidal crystals can be used as templates for 2D or 3D structures of special symmetry, such as 2D nano-networks. We anticipate that this fabrication technique for nonspherical colloidal crystals can also be extended to nonspherical porous materials.     

垂直排列法组装胶体晶体的最新进展

光子晶体是一种具有光子带隙的新型功能材料.利用胶体粒子自组装三维光子晶体由于其制备过程比较经济、简单,从而为很多人所关注.目前报道的方法已有多种.其中垂直排列法的简便易行使得其受到了广泛的研究,但另一方面这种方法本身的缺点也限制了它的使用范围.针对这种情况,很多研究机构提出了他们的改进方法.本文简要概述了在这一方面的最新进展,并且在本实验室已能够制备任意单分散、均一尺寸二氧化硅粒子的基础上,采用恒温快速蒸发自组装法得到了高质量的胶体晶体排列.     

Nanoparticle-mediated epitaxial assembly of colloidal crystals on patterned substrates

We have studied the assembly of 3-D colloidal crystals from binary mixtures of colloidal microspheres and highly charged nanoparticles on flat and epitaxially patterned substrates created by focused ion beam milling. The microspheres were settled onto these substrates from dilute binary mixtures. Laser scanning confocal microscopy was used to directly observe microsphere structural evolution during sedimentation, nanoparticle gelation, and subsequent drying. After microsphere settling, the nanoparticle solution surrounding the colloidal crystal was gelled in situ by introducing ammonia vapor, which increased the pH and enabled drying with minimal microsphere rearrangement. By infilling the dried colloidal crystals with an index-matched fluorescent dye solution, we generated full 3-D reconstructions of their structure including defects as a function of initial suspension composition and pitch of the patterned features. Through proper control over these important parameters, 3-D colloidal crystals were created with low defect densities suitable for use as templates for photonic crystals and photonic band gap materials.     

悬浮液气-液界面二元胶体颗粒的漂浮组装机理

提出一种在悬浮液气-液界面漂浮组装亚微米单分散聚苯乙烯(PS)微球和纳米SiO2颗粒二元胶粒晶体的新方法, 并系统研究了漂浮组装机理. 研究表明, 聚苯乙烯微球和二氧化硅两种胶体颗粒在悬浮液气-液界面的漂浮组装是以PS微球的组装为主导的. 在一定PS微球相浓度范围内, 悬浮液中PS 微球与SiO2颗粒的初始体积配比基本不影响PS微球有序组装的形成. PS微球粒径在150-500 nm时易于形成有序排列, 较小或较大粒径的PS微球难以形成有序排列. SiO2颗粒的组装是一种以PS微球为“基底”的沉积过程. 二元胶粒晶体中SiO2颗粒的体积分数由其在混合悬浮液中的相浓度所决定.     

Colloidal crystals from surface-tension-assisted self-assembly: a novel matrix for single-molecule experiments

In this work, we develop a new method of creating colloidal crystals with cavities for the entrapment and long-term observation of single biomolecules. Colloidal crystals are first fabricated using surface-tension-assisted self-assembly. Surface tension helps to reduce the interparticle distance between dispensed colloids. Subsequently, the colloids are used as a matrix in which single fluorescently tagged molecules can be tracked using fluorescence microscopy. This method has a high efficiency of self-assembly for small volumes (4 microL) of colloidal suspensions (polystyrene colloids with diameters of 1000, 500, 200, and 100 nm) at low concentration (1% w/w). The spatial hindrance effect on the diffusion of molecules and their entrapment is discussed on the basis of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy results from the diffusion of molecules with different hydrodynamic radii in the cavities of colloidal crystals formed from micrometer- to nanometer-sized polystyrene spheres. Single horseradish peroxidase molecules turning over fluorescent products are tracked over a few seconds. This shows that colloidal crystals can be used to test the function of single molecules of enzymes and protein under controlled spatial confinement.     

Self-assembly of photonic crystals from polymer colloids

This article reviews recent developments in self-assembly of polymer colloids into colloidal crystals, a good candidate material for photonic crystals. Self-assembly strategy has developed as a facile and efficient method to fabricate colloidal crystals. Much research work has been focused on controlling the morphology and improving the quality, as well as finding applications of the colloidal crystals.     

Connected open structures from close-packed colloidal crystals by hyperthermal neutral beam etching

We report the fabrication of connected open structures from close-packed colloidal crystals by hyperthermal neutral beam etching. Colloidal crystal films of polystyrene microspheres were prepared by a vertical deposition method. Exposure of the colloidal crystal films to hyperthermal neutral beam made isolated microspheres in the face-centered cubic lattice, each of which was connected with its twelve nearest neighbors through very thin cylinders. Due to the charge neutrality of impinging gas molecules of the hyperthermal neutral beam, the spherical shape of polymer microspheres was almost maintained during the etching process. The Bragg reflection peaks were modulated by the etched volume of colloidal crystals. Finally, the inverse structures of such open structures were replicated by a simple room-temperature chemical vapor deposition and subsequently burning out polymer template spheres.