反蛋白石光子晶体的研究进展

反蛋白石晶体是一类重要的光子晶体,由于其制备材料的广泛性以及容易实现对光子禁带的多重调制而受到广泛关注.本文介绍了目前反蛋白石晶体结构的主要制备技术和方法,详细阐述了反蛋白石晶体结构的最新研究进展.     

聚苯乙烯光子晶体高效制备

以苯乙烯单体为原料,采用一步聚合自组装法制备了具有蛋白石结构的聚苯乙烯(PS)光子晶体(1);以1为模板制备了反蛋白石结构的TiO2光子晶体(2)来验证1的有序性;探讨了1的制备机理。1和2的结构和形貌经IR,SEM和TEM表征。讨论了乳化剂SDS的用量对PS微球排列有序性的影响。结果表明,SDS用量在30 mg～74 mg时,PS微球的粒径不断减小,微球排列的有序性受到影响;当SDS用量为52 mg时,PS微球排列的有序性最佳,能够形成蛋白石结构的1;2在大范围内有序排列进一步证明了1的高度有序性。     

蛋白石及反蛋白石結構光子晶體

光子晶体是由不同介电常数的材料构成的一种空间周期性结构，它能够在特定方向上禁阻、控制和操纵光子的运动。目前，已制备的光子晶体具有几种不同的结构类型，本文主要综述了蛋白石、反蛋白石结构光子晶体的制备方法及其光子带隙的影响因素。     

甲基丙烯酸/丙烯酰胺双单体共聚反蛋白石光子晶体的制备

以烧结后的二氧化硅光子晶体为模板,采用溶胶凝胶法向模板间隙填充以甲基丙烯酸(MAA)和丙烯酰胺(AM)为双功能单体,N,N’-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺(BIS)为交联剂的聚合物前驱液,制备了甲基丙烯酸/丙烯酰胺共聚(PMAM)双单体反蛋白石凝胶光子晶体.通过紫外可见光谱分析表明,反蛋白石结构的凝胶膜对pH响应范围在4.0～7.0之间.由于其不受离子强度的影响,除了可以作为pH传感器外,还可以作为金属离子及生物小分子等分子印迹光子晶体传感器的基体膜.     

光子晶体研究进展

光子晶体是最近10余年间提出的新概念和新材料。本文简述了光子晶体的主要特性,重点阐述了光子晶体的制作方法,特别是高分子材料制作分子晶体的几种新方法。     

官能化反蛋白石结构光子晶体的构筑及对肝素的检测

制备了一种具有反蛋白石结构的光子晶体(IOPCs), 通过聚乙烯亚胺(PEI)实现了对该IOPCs的官能化; PEI官能化的IOPCs与肝素之间具有强静电作用, 从而可利用其对肝素进行特异性检测. 研究结果表明, 随着肝素浓度的增加(0~10 ^-4 mol/L), 官能化IOPCs的布拉格衍射峰最大位移约为40 nm; 肝素浓度的对数与IOPCs的最大衍射波长位移具有良好的线性关系(R ²=0.99905), 检测限为10 ^-10 mol/L. 该IOPCs具有较好的物理和化学稳定性, 且能重复用于肝素的检测, 具有良好的应用前景.     

反蛋白石光子晶体凝胶的pH响应

首先采用Stber方法制备了一系列亚微米级单分散二氧化硅小球,而后通过垂直沉降自组装方法制备了颜色鲜艳的二氧化硅三维有序结构胶体晶体模板,最后再采用模板聚合法在220 nm二氧化硅小球自组装的阵列间隙中共聚甲基丙烯酸和乙二醇二甲基丙烯酸酯,经氢氟酸刻蚀二氧化硅模板后得到多孔有序的反蛋白石光子晶体.当pH值从5升至8时,反蛋白石凝胶光子晶体的反射峰波长从514 nm移动至590 nm,颜色变化显著,从蓝绿色变成红色,突变点为pH=6.5,而且pH响应在100 s左右即可达到平衡.对交联剂用量的研究结果表明,随着交联剂乙二醇二甲基丙烯酸酯用量从4%增加到16%,光子晶体响应pH时的红移量减小.     

胶体自组装法形成光子带隙材料

光子带隙晶体使人们可以有效地控制和操纵光子,但是构建光子晶体,尤其是近红外及可见光区域的光子晶体是一个困难的工作,它对材料提出了很高的要求.本文从化学的角度,利用自组装方法,对胶体晶体和反蛋白石等类光子带隙材料包括半导体、金属、金属氧化物、聚合物、染料等进行较全面的介绍,同时介绍了如何从这些材料获得光子带隙.     

硫化镉反蛋白石光子晶体制备及光解水制氢

对硫化镉反蛋白石结构光子晶体薄膜进行了可控合成,用巯基乙酸修饰的纳米晶和P(St-MMA-SPMAP)高分子小球共组装,成功地构筑了反蛋白石结构并用于可见光光解水产氢。结果表明,在可见光(λ≥420 nm)照射下,Cd S-310反蛋白石结构薄膜的光解水产氢性能比硫化镉纳米颗粒提高了一倍。这主要是因为等级孔结构反蛋白石光子晶体特性对催化剂的光催化性能的提升:首先,反蛋白石的周期性结构增加了光子在材料中的传播,提高了催化剂对太阳光的利用率;同时,大孔孔壁是由纳米颗粒堆积而成的,在反应中提供了更多的反应活性位点;此外,孔结构有利于物质的传输和分子的吸附。     

Structural colored gels for tunable soft photonic crystals

A periodically ordered interconnecting porous structure can be embodied in chemical gels by using closest‐packed colloidal crystals as templates. The interconnecting porosity not only provides a quick response but also endows the porous gels with structural color arising from coherent Bragg optical diffraction. The structural colors revealed by porous gels can be regulated by several techniques, and thus, it is feasible to obtain desirable, smart, soft materials. A well‐known thermosensitive monomer, N‐isopropylacrylamide (NIPA), and other minor monomers were used to fabricate various structural colored gels. The selection of minor monomers depended on the targeted properties. This review focuses on the synthesis of templates, structural colored porous gels, and the applications of structural colored gel as smart soft materials for tunable photonic crystals. © 2009 The Japan Chemical Journal Forum and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Chem Rec 9: 87–105; 2009: Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ) DOI 10.1002/tcr.20169     

Biomimetic color-changing skin based on temperature-responsive hydrogel microspheres with the photonic crystal structure

The responsive color-changing bionic skin imitation of certain organisms such as chameleons has potential applications in the fields of chemical sensing and information transfer. Inspired by the cellular structure of the chameleon iridophores, a flexible and scalable fabrication strategy was proposed in the present study, which centers on the modular assembly of miniature color-changing pixel dots. The color-changing pixel dots were formed by self-assembling charged silica particles inside hydrogels and fabricated in bulk using microfluidic methods. The pixel dots were immobilized in hydrogels to encapsulate in a membrane structure similar to biological skin. With thermal stimulation, the bionic color-changing skin can change color from green to red and has an angle-independent color display with good environmental adaptability.     

PAM-PAA microgel inverse opal photonic crystal and pH response

The colloidal crystal template or opal with a closed-packed face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice was prepared from monodisperse polystyrene (PS) spheres by vertical sedimentation.The template provided void space for infiltration of monomer precursor composed of acrylate acid,acrylamide and ammonium persulfate,as well as microgel from the subsequent copolymerization.The sample was immersed in dimethylbenzene for completely removing PS spheres to form PAM inverse opal hydrogels (IOH_(PAM)) or PAM/PAA inverse opal hydrogels (IOH_(PAM/PAA)) photonic crystals.The PS spheres were replaced by air spheres,which interconnected each other through the windows.The study of responses to pH show that there are two peaks for both IOH_(PAM) and IOH_(PAM/PAA) films,but the IOH(PAM/PAA) peaks shift to higher pH,and the peaks are independent with the AA content. (?)2007 Xiao Dong Wang.Published by Elsevier B.V.on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society.All rights reserved.     

Low-birefringence liquid crystal mixtures for photonic liquid crystal fibres application

ABSTRACT

Series of low-birefringence liquid crystal mixtures composed of alkyl alkylbicyclohexyl carbonates and modified mixtures with other compounds have been formulated, their refractive indices and electric permittivity measured upon temperature. They exhibit the ordinary refraction index n_o lower than the refractive index of silica glass in a different range of temperature. This enables to observe in photonic liquid crystal fibres (PLCFs) a change in the light propagation mechanism from photonic band gap guiding to modified total internal reflection at different temperatures. Selected applications of PLCFs are also discussed.     

Temperature-controllable beam splitter and optical filter based on filling liquid crystal into both ends of photonic crystal fibres

We first presented an optical device of integrated beam splitter and filter based on the photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) with both ends of the air-holes filled with liquid crystal (LCs). All of the air-holes of one end of PCFs were filled with LCs and for the other end two air-holes near the solid core were selectively filled with LCs. As a beam splitter, when the two-filled-holes end was heated, the light power partly transmitted steadily from the central solid core into the two holes filled with LCs after the clearing point. As a filter, when the two-filled-holes end was heated, a peak near 760 nm of transmission spectrum got weak and another peak near 608 nm was maintained. While heating the full-filled end, the peak near 760 nm got strong and the peak near 608 nm got extremely weak. So this optical device could be applied to beam splitter and filter.     

三聚氰胺分子印迹光子晶体水凝胶膜传感器的制备及应用

该文将光子晶体与分子印迹技术结合，制备了分子印迹光子晶体水凝胶膜（MIPHs）作为光学传感器，用于样品中三聚氰胺的快速识别检测。以三聚氰胺为模板分子，通过垂直沉降自组装、填充聚合、去除模板3个步骤，制备得到了反蛋白石结构的三聚氰胺MIPHs。扫描电子显微镜的形貌表征表明，MIPHs具有高度有序的三维大孔结构。该MIPHs作为光学传感器可以将三聚氰胺的分子特异识别过程转换成光学信号，在对目标分析物分析时具有选择性高、响应快、灵敏度高的优点。此外，可以根据MIPHs的颜色变化利用图像软件分析或裸眼识别的方式实现目标分析物快速识别。实验结果表明，在最优条件下，三聚氰胺浓度为10^-11~10^-6mol/L时，MIPHs的布拉格衍射峰位移从563 nm红移到608 nm，而对三聚氰胺的结构类似物没有明显响应。     

Design of two-dimensional photonic crystal biosensor using DNA detection

Abstract

In this paper, the photonic crystal biosensor is investigated theoretically with, concomitantly, high quality factor, transmission and sensitivity. This biosensor is made out of two waveguide couplers and one L2 resonant cavity formed by removing two air holes. For biosensor analysis, the 2D finite difference time domain (FDTD) method and the plane-wave expansion (PWE) approach are applied. Four slots placed into the cavity and the three rows of functionalized holes nearby the resonant cavities are filled with DNA. For the optimized structure, the biosensor quality factor is found to be over 3.7468?×?10⁶ and the sensitivity is of order 460?nm/RIU. The designed structure has high sensitivity, which is an important parameter in biosensing applications.     

Double telecom band thermo-optic switch based on dual-line filled photonic liquid crystal fibres

We demonstrate a thermo-optic switch based on photonic liquid crystal fibres (PLCFs) in which two lines of air hole are selective filled with liquid crystal (LC), with a high extinction ratio of more than 20 dB around 1310 nm and 1550 nm. Only in the range of 2.0°C it can perform a turn off and on operation of transmitted light in the second telecom band around 1550 nm while the first telecom bands around 1310 nm is still on. Due to the splitting of the bandgap, the switching function is achieved in this kind of PLCFs. Before the cleaning point (CP) of LC, a broad bandgap from about 1120 nm to 1320 nm splits into two ones, which are continuing inducing huge bandgap extension to shorter wavelength and longer wavelength after the CP of LC, respectively. Moreover, the temperature responses around the CP of LC is also investigated. Its sensitivity is about ?92.32 nm/°C around the CP of LC. Therefore, such kind of selective-filled PLCFs could find potential applications as thermo-optic switch and temperature sensor in the telecom band.     

胶体晶体自组装排列进展

自组装排列胶体晶体是发展光子晶体等亚微米周期有序结构及新型光电子器件十分重要的环节.高电荷密度单分散胶体球在较弱的离子强度和稀浓度下会自发排列形成紧密堆积的周期性结构(ccp),常常是面心立方(fcc),科学家们以此为基础发展了多种结晶化胶体粒子的方法,包括重力场沉积、电泳沉积、胶体外延技术、垂直沉积、流通池、物理束缚排列及其他的许多方法.目前排列的胶体粒子基本为球形,材料也多为SiO2、PS、PMMA,此外一些复合粒子,主要为核壳粒子的排列这里也稍作介绍,这些方法及其变通的使用可以形成类蛋白石及反蛋白石结构,最终实现光子带隙及其它多种用途。