Transparent and High Refractive Index Thermoplastic Polymer Glasses Using Evaporative Ligand Exchange of Hybrid Particle Fillers

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 9; no. 8; pp. 7515 - 7522
• Main Authors: Wang, Zongyu, Lu, Zhao, Mahoney, Clare, Yan, Jiajun, Ferebee, Rachel, Luo, Danli, Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof, Bockstaller, Michael R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 01.03.2017; American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Subjects: cost effectiveness; energy efficiency; ligands; lighting; Materials Science; photonics; polymethylmethacrylate; refractive index; Science & Technology - Other Topics; thermoplastics; wavelengths; zinc oxide; zinc oxide (ZnO); hybrid material; nanocomposite; ligand exchange; refractive index; transparency

Development of high refractive index glasses on the basis of commodity polymer thermoplastics presents an important requisite to further advancement of technologies ranging from energy efficient lighting to cost efficient photonics. This contribution presents a novel particle dispersion strategy tha...