Synthetic opal as a template for nanostructured materials

P. A. White; L. Heales; R. L. Barber; T. W. Turney

doi:10.1117/12.424412

Synthetic opal as a template for nanostructured materials

P. A. White, L. Heales, R. L. Barber, T. W. Turney

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Synthetic opal has been used as a template for making 3D inverse opals of silica, titania and silicone rubber. The materials are mesoporous with connected pores and channels and have better opalescence than the opal templates they replace. Thin films of synthetic opal have been grown onto glass substrates by spin coating and these have also been used as templates for making thin films of inverse opal and as masks for depositing metal nanodots. This method produced hexagonally patterned 50nm gold dots on a flat graphite substrate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	239-243
Number of pages	5
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	4234
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.424412
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Inverse opal
Mesoporous
Microfluidic
Synthetic opal

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