Publication Date:
2003-03-29
Description:
Elaborate one-dimensional photonic crystals are constructed from a variety of organic and biopolymers, which can be dissolved or melted, by templating the solution-cast or injection-molded materials in porous silicon or porous silicon dioxide multilayer (rugate dielectric mirror) structures. After the removal of the template by chemical dissolution, the polymer castings replicate the photonic features and the nanostructure of the master. We demonstrate that these castings can be used as vapor sensors, as deformable and tunable optical filters, and as self-reporting, bioresorbable materials.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Yang Yang -- Cunin, Frederique -- Link, Jamie R -- Gao, Ting -- Betts, Ronald E -- Reiver, Sarah H -- Chin, Vicki -- Bhatia, Sangeeta N -- Sailor, Michael J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Mar 28;299(5615):2045-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Department 0358, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12663921" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Biocompatible Materials
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Caffeine
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*Drug Delivery Systems
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Ethanol
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Humans
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Hydrolysis
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Light
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*Nanotechnology
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Optics and Photonics
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Polyesters/chemistry
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Polyethylene/chemistry
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*Polymers
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Polystyrenes/chemistry
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Porosity
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*Silicon/chemistry
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Silicon Dioxide/chemistry
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Spectrum Analysis
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Volatilization
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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