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ReviewAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2022

The Limited Palette for Photonic Block-Copolymer Materials: A Historical Problem or a Practical Limitation?

Zhen Wang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Richard M Parker, Silvia Vignolini

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Review in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Disordered Inverse Photonic Beads Assembled From Linear Block Copolymers.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  3. Co-assembly of Block Copolymers and Cobalt Ferrite Nanoparticles for Magnetic Material Design.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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  5. Direct-ink-write cross-linkable bottlebrush block copolymers for on-the-fly control of structural color.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  6. Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments.Angewandte Chemie (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2022
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  7. Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zhen WangYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-8271
Chun Lam Clement ChanYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5812-8440
Richard M ParkerYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4096-9161
Silvia VignoliniYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0664-1418

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship BB/K014617/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/V00364X/1China Scholarship Council International Scholarship 2019Croucher Foundation International Scholarship 2017Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EPSRC EP/N016920/1; EP/R511675/1H2020 European Research Council ERC-2014-STG H2020 639088H2020 European Research Council ERC-2017-POC 790518The Royal Society IE160420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Block-copolymer self-assembly has proven to be an effective route for the fabrication of photonic films and, more recently, photonic pigments. However, despite extensive research on this topic over the past two decades, the palette of monomers and polymers employed to produce such structurally colored materials has remained surprisingly limited. In this Scientific Perspective, the commonly used block-copolymer systems reported in the literature are summarized (considering both linear and brush architectures) and their use is rationalized from the point of view of both their historical development and physicochemical constraints. Finally, the current challenges facing the field are discussed and promising new areas of research are highlighted to inspire the community to pursue new directions.

Indexed as

Block-CopolymersMesophasesNanostructuresPhotonic CrystalsSelf-Assembly

Identifiers

PMID35446459
PMCPMC9325480

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