An All‐Inorganic Colloidal Nanocrystal Flexible Polarizer. (21st May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Simin; Shi, Wenxiong; Siegler, Timothy D.; Gao, Xiaoqing; Ge, Feng; Korgel, Brian A.; He, Yan; Li, Shuzhou; Wang, Xun
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie. Volume 131:Number 26(2019)
• Page Start: 8822
• Page End: 8827
• Publication Date: 2019-05-21
• Subjects: Anisotrope Materialien -- Dünne Schichten -- Nanodrähte -- Polarisierung -- Selbstassemblierung; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/ange.201902240
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0044-8249

Abstract

Abstract: Inorganic single crystals with anisotropic structures usually suffer from high brittleness and stiffness. Flexible polymers are used to replace inorganic crystals, but the hot‐stretching‐induced orientation process is tedious, and oriented molecular chains tend to revert to random coils during aging. To overcome these obstacles and using the similarities between sub‐1 nm nanowires (NWs) and linear polymers, we successfully fabricated anisotropic, transparent, flexible, and stable (ATFS) NW films with great potential for optical applications through a wet‐spinning method. The NW films show birefringence, and their birefractive index is higher than that of many polymers. They also showed polarized absorption of UV light and anisotropic scattering of visible light. The integrated films composed of NWs and quantum dots showed good fluorescence polarization. The tedious synthesis of quantum rods and fabrication of oriented polymer films can thus be avoided. Abstract : Anorganische Nanodrähte (NWs) <1 nm haben ähnliche Abmessungen wie lineare Polymere. GdOOH‐Nanodrähte <1 nm wurden als Bausteine verwendet, um dünne Filme mit anisotropen, transparenten, flexiblen und stabilen (ATFS) Eigenschaften herzustellen, die enormes Potenzial für optische Anwendungen haben.