The self-assembly of soft matter, such as block copolymers or colloids, allows fine tuning of structure formation on the 10 - 500 nm length scale and therefore enables the design of materials with tunable optical response. We present strategies on how to exploit these formation principles to assemble inorganic nanoarchitectures with distinct optical properties and point out promising applications in photovoltaics, colorimetric sensing and self-cleaning antireflective coatings.
Title
Soft matter design principles for inorganic photonic nanoarchitectures in photovoltaics, colorimetric sensing and self-cleaning antireflective coatings
Published in
Micro- And Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, And Applications Vi
Pagination
10
Series
Proceedings of SPIE
Volume
9083
Conference
Conference on Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VI, Baltimore, MD, MAY 05-09, 2014
Date
2014
Publisher
Bellingham, Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering
ISSN
0277-786X
ISBN
978-1-62841-020-4
Record creation date
2014-11-13