Construction of the single-diamond-structured titania scaffold—Recreation of the holy grail photonic structure

Author:

Wang Chao1ORCID,Cui Congcong1ORCID,Deng Quanzheng1ORCID,Zhang Chong1ORCID,Asahina Shunsuke23ORCID,Cao Yuanyuan4ORCID,Mai Yiyong5ORCID,Che Shunai15ORCID,Han Lu1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

2. Application Planning Group, Japan Electron Optics Laboratory Co Ltd, Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan

3. Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan

4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China

5. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, State Key Laboratory of Composite Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Abstract

As one of the most stunning biological nanostructures, the single-diamond (SD) surface discovered in beetles and weevils exoskeletons possesses the widest complete photonic bandgap known to date and is renowned as the “holy grail” of photonic materials. However, the synthesis of SD is difficult due to its thermodynamical instability compared to the energetically favoured bicontinuous double diamond and other easily formed lattices; thus, the artificial fabrication of SD has long been a formidable challenge. Herein, we report a bottom–up approach to fabricate SD titania networks via a one-pot cooperative assembly scenario employing the diblock copolymer poly(ethylene oxide)- block -polystyrene as a soft template and titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) as an inorganic precursor in a mixed solvent, in which the SD scaffold was obtained by kinetically controlled nucleation and growth in the skeletal channels of the diamond minimal surface formed by the polymer matrix. Electron crystallography investigations revealed the formation of tetrahedrally connected SD frameworks with the space group Fd 3 ¯ m in a polycrystalline anatase form. A photonic bandgap calculation showed that the resulting SD structure has a wide and complete bandgap. This work solves the complex synthetic enigmas and offers a frontier in hyperbolic surfaces, biorelevant materials, next-generation optical devices, etc.

Funder

MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China

MOE | Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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