Mild Sol-Gel Conditions and High Dielectric Contrast: A Facile Processing toward Large-Scale Hybrid Photonic Crystals for Sensing and Photocatalysis.

ABSTRACT: Solution processing of highly performing photonic crystals has been a towering ambition for making them technologically relevant in applications requiring mass and large-area production. It would indeed represent a paradigm changer for the fabrication of sensors and for light management nanostructures meant for photonics and advanced photocatalytic systems. On the other hand, solution-processed structures often suffer from low dielectric contrast and poor optical quality or require complex deposition procedures due to the intrinsic properties of components treatable from solution. This work reports on a low-temperature sol-gel route between the alkoxides of Si and Ti and poly(acrylic acid), leading to stable polymer-inorganic hybrid materials with tunable refractive index and, in the case

SUBMITTER: Bertucci S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9073830 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature