title: Precisely tunable photonic crystals from rapidly self-assembling brush block copolymer blends.
abstract: Colorful: enabled by their reduced capacity for chain entanglement, high-molecular-weight brush block copolymers can rapidly self-assemble to photonic crystals. The blending of two polymers of different molecular weight can predictably modulate the sizes of the polymer domains, giving rise to a facile means of precision tuning of these photonic-band-gap materials.
authors.affiliation: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA.
authors.forename: Garret M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Miyake
authors.forename: Victoria A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Piunova
authors.forename: Raymond A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Weitekamp
authors.forename: Robert H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Grubbs