Photo-tuning of highly selective wetting in inverse opals.

Autor: Singleton TA; Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B8, Canada., Burgess IB, Nerger BA, Goulet-Hanssens A, Koay N, Barrett CJ, Aizenberg J
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Soft matter [Soft Matter] 2014 Mar 07; Vol. 10 (9), pp. 1325-8.
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52684d
Abstrakt: Crack-free inverse opals exhibit a sharply defined threshold wettability for infiltration that has enabled their use as colourimetric indicators for liquid identification. Here we demonstrate direct and continuous photo-tuning of this wetting threshold in inverse opals whose surfaces are functionalized with a polymer doped with azobenzene chromophores.
Databáze: MEDLINE