Issue 13, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Propagation of polymernanosheets from silica opal membrane gaps by thermal polymerization of bicontinuous microemulsions†

Shintaro Kawano,a   Sayaka Nishi,a   Ryusuke Umezaa  and  Masashi Kunitake*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, 2-39-1 Kurokami, Kumamoto, Japan
E-mail: kunitake@chem.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-96-342-3679
Tel: +81-96-342-3674

b JST-CREST, Japan

Abstract

Unique polymer morphologies such as fractal surfaces consisting of closely-spaced nanosheets and vertically extended nanosheets were found to be formed by thermal polymerization of styrene or methyl methacrylate bicontinuous microemulsions (BME) from the gaps of a silica opal membrane.

Graphical abstract: Propagation of polymer nanosheets from silica opal membrane gaps by thermal polymerization of bicontinuous microemulsions

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B821896J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Dec 2008
Accepted
09 Jan 2009
First published
13 Feb 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 1688-1690

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Propagation of polymer nanosheets from silica opal membrane gaps by thermal polymerization of bicontinuous microemulsions

S. Kawano, S. Nishi, R. Umeza and M. Kunitake, Chem. Commun., 2009, 1688 DOI: 10.1039/B821896J

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