POLYMER ARCHITECTURES
Functional polymers featuring different architectures, e.g. (co)polymers, grafted polymers, block copolymers or polymers immobilized on various surfaces are a technologically highly relevant material platform.
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OPAL FILMS
Photonic band gap materials have attracted a great deal of attention as potential candidates for various optoelectronic applications. With easily accessible monodisperse colloids, such materials can be prepared by an inexpensive and convenient bottom-up process.
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MEMBRANES
In the field of separation processes, immobilized functional polymers, block copolymer or inverse opal structures attracted enormous attention as potential filtration membranes.
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CERAMICS
The self-assembly of polymers such as block copolymers or polymer particles is a feasible tool for the formation of nanostructured (hybrid) materials for a manifold of different potential applications.
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