{"product_id":"9783030030100","title":"Springer Theses: Solvent Vapour Annealing, Confined Crystallisation, and Optical Anisotropy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpringer Theses: Solvent Vapour Annealing, Confined Crystallisation, and Optical Anisotropy\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eDolan, James A.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thesis explores the fabrication of gyroid-forming block copolymer templates and the optical properties of the resulting gyroid optical metamaterials, significantly contributing to our understanding of both. It demonstrates solvent vapour annealing to improve the long-range order of the templates, and investigates the unique crystallisation behaviour of their semicrystalline block. Furthermore, it shows that gyroid optical metamaterials that exhibit only short-range order are optically equivalent to nanoporous gold, and that the anomalous linear dichroism of gyroid optical metamaterials with long-range order is the result of the surface termination of the bulk gyroid morphology. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\nOptical metamaterials are artificially engineered materials that, by virtue of their structure rather than their chemistry, may exhibit various optical properties not otherwise encountered in nature (e.g. a negative refractive index). However, these structures must be significantly smaller than the wavelength of visible light and are therefore challenging to fabricate using traditional “top down” techniques. Instead, a “bottom up” approach can be used, whereby optical metamaterials are fabricated via templates created by the self-assembly of block-copolymers. One such morphology is the gyroid, a chiral, continuous and triply periodic cubic network found in a range of natural and synthetic self-assembled systems.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-11-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030030100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-03011-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 132\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47394516959372,"sku":"9783030030100","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030030100.jpg?v=1775770453","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030030100","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}