Issue 50, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Photonic metal–polymer resin nanocomposites with chiral nematic order†

Vitor M. Zamarion,‡ab   Mostofa K. Khan,‡a   Maik Schlesinger,a   Anas Bsoul,cd   Konrad Walus,c   Wadood Y. Hamade  and  Mark J. MacLachlan*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1 Canada
E-mail: mmaclach@chem.ubc.ca

b Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes, 748, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Canada

d Department of Computer Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

e FPInnovations, 2665 East Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Abstract

Mesoporous resins with chiral nematic order were used as scaffolds to construct novel iridescent metal–polymer composites. Gold, silver and palladium nanoparticles were formed by an in situ reduction reaction. We have investigated the effects of concentration and time on the deposition. As a proof-of-concept, we demonstrate that this process can be extended to patterning photonic resins by inkjet printing.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC03147A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Apr 2016
Accepted
21 May 2016
First published
31 May 2016

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 7810-7813

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Photonic metal–polymer resin nanocomposites with chiral nematic order

V. M. Zamarion, M. K. Khan, M. Schlesinger, A. Bsoul, K. Walus, W. Y. Hamad and M. J. MacLachlan, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 7810 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC03147A

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