Nanostructuring of titania thin films by a combination of microfluidics and block-copolymer-based sol-gel templating

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Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 884-891

  Rawolle, Monika ^a   Ruderer, Matthias A ^a   Prams, Stefan M ^a   Zhong, Qi ^a   Magerl, David ^a   Perlich, Jan ^b   Roth, Stephan V ^b   Lellig, Philipp ^c   Gutmann, Jochen S ^d   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

microfluidics; nanostructures; photovoltaics; sol gel processes; titania

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; BOTTOM ELECTRODES; CHARGE GENERATION; FILM POROSITY; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; INORGANIC-ORGANIC; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LARGE SURFACE AREA; LOCAL COMPOSITIONS; MACROPORES; MESO-PORES; METHYL METHACRYLATES; MICROFLUIDIC CELL; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; NANO-STRUCTURING; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REACTIVE FLUIDS; SHORT CIRCUIT; STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS; SURFACE-TO-VOLUME RATIO; TEMPLATED; TEMPLATING; TITANIA; TITANIA FILMS; TITANIA LAYERS; TITANIA THIN FILMS; WELL-DEFINED STRUCTURES; X RAY REFLECTIVITY;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; ESTERS; ETHYLENE; GELS; LAMINAR FLOW; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; REFRACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDICS; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY;

MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM; X-RAYS;

EID: 79953750294     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201001734     Document Type: Article

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