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4. Reconfigurable Antireflection Coatings Enabled by PDMS Oligomer Infusion in Templated Nanoporous Polymer Films

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Leo, Sin-Yen, Zhang, Yifan, Jiang, James, Lin, Nanqi, Jiang, Peng, and Taylor, Curtis

Abstract

The diffusion of uncured polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) oligomers out of bulk PDMS elastomers is usually detrimental to many biomedical and microfluidic applications due to the inevitable contamination of the contacting fluids and substrates. Here, we transform this detrimental process into an enabling technology for achieving novel reconfigurable antireflection (AR) coatings, which are of great technological importance in the development of new nano-optical and optoelectronic applications. Self-assembled monolayer silica colloidal crystals are first used as sacrificial templates in fabricating nanoporous polymer AR coatings. When air in the templated nanopores is replaced with infused PDMS oligomers simply by pressing a PDMS stamp on a nanoporous AR film, the original antireflection conditions are lost, and the coating transforms from a low-reflection configuration to a high-reflection state. The original antireflection performance can be fully recovered by dissolving the infused oligomers in the appropriate solvents (e.g., hexane). This novel tuning mechanism for achieving reconfigurable AR properties has been confirmed by systematic investigations using various microscopes, optical spectroscopy, nanoindentation, thermomechanical tests, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Complex micropatterns with micrometer-scale spatial resolution and drastically different AR performances can be easily printed on nanoporous AR films by using a soft lithography-based microcontact printing process. Numerical finite-difference time-domain simulations match well with experimental antireflection measurements and reveal a linear relationship between the optical transmission and the amount of infused PDMS oligomers in nanopores.

Published
2024
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26. Highly Crystallized Nanometer-Sized Zeolite A with Large Cs Adsorption Capability for the Decontamination of Water.

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Torad, Nagy L., Naito, Masanobu, Tatami, Junichi, Endo, Akira, Leo, Sin ‐ Yen, Ishihara, Shinsuke, Wu, Kevin C. ‐ W., Wakihara, Toru, and Yamauchi, Yusuke

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ZEOLITES, NANOSTRUCTURED materials, WATER purification adsorption, ORGANIC compounds, QUARTZ crystal microbalances, CRYSTALLIZATION
Abstract

Nanometer-sized zeolite A with a large cesium (Cs) uptake capability is prepared through a simple post-milling recrystallization method. This method is suitable for producing nanometer-sized zeolite in large scale, as additional organic compounds are not needed to control zeolite nucleation and crystal growth. Herein, we perform a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) study to evaluate the uptake ability of Cs ions by zeolite, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time. In comparison to micrometer-sized zeolite A, nanometer-sized zeolite A can rapidly accommodate a larger amount of Cs ions into the zeolite crystal structure, owing to its high external surface area. Nanometer-sized zeolite is a promising candidate for the removal of radioactive Cs ions from polluted water. Our QCM study on Cs adsorption uptake behavior provides the information of adsorption kinetics (e.g., adsorption amounts and rates). This technique is applicable to other zeolites, which will be highly valuable for further consideration of radioactive Cs removal in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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