Ordered bicontinuous nanoporous and nanorelief ceramic films from serf assembling polymer precursors

Vanessa Z.H. Chan, James Hoffman, Victor Y. Lee, Hermis Iatrou, Apostolos Avgeropoulos, Nikos Hadjichristidis, Robert D. Miller, Edwin L. Thomas*

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Abstract

Three-dimensional ceramic nanostructured films were produced from silicon-containing triblock copolymer films exhibiting the double gyroid and inverse double gyroid morphologies (space group Ia3d). A one-step room- temperature oxidation process that used ozonolysis and ultraviolet irradiation effected both the selective removal of the hydrocarbon block and the conversion of the silicon-containing block to a silicon oxycarbide ceramic stable to 400 °C. Depending on the relative volume fraction of the hydrocarbon block to the silicon-containing block, either nanoporous or nanorelief structures were fabricated with calculated interfacial areas of ~40 square meters per gram and pore or strut sizes of ~20 nanometers.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1716-1719
Number of pages4
JournalSCIENCE
Volume286
Issue number5445
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 26 1999
Externally publishedYes

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