Robust Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Porous Thin Films via Breath-Figure Method and Gelation Process
✍ Scribed by Ke Zhang; Liwei Zhang; Yongming Chen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A novel organic/inorganic hybrid honeycomb patterned porous thin film was prepared using the breath‐figure method combined with a sol‐gel process. An in situ formed gelable block copolymer, formed by mixing poly(styrene‐alt‐maleic anhydride)‐block‐polystyrene (P(St‐a‐MAn)‐b‐PS) and 3‐aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (APS), was used as the structure directing agent. The porous film produced was dipped into an acid aqueous solution to induce a sol‐gel process in the wall of film. As a result of gelation, the structure of this film transformed into a crosslinked silica oxide hybridized with PS, and this film resisted those organic solvents which were once good solvents for the copolymer precursor.
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