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Characterization of Medium-Range Order in Self-Assembled Organic-Inorganic Hybrid by Fluctuation X-Ray Microscopy

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The control of formation and ordering of self assembled nanostructures, with medium- to long-range order, is a challenge that limits advances in many fields of nanotechnology. We have developed a technique, which we call fluctuation x-ray microscopy, that offers quantitative insight into medium-range correlations in disordered materials at nanometer- and larger-length scales. We examined the influence of sol-gel process variables on medium range order in PI-b-PEO/ aluminosilicate bulk using this technique. The nano-structuring of inorganic materials was directed by polymer self-assembly. The medium range correlation between the nanostructures in two hybrids was quantitatively examined and compared.

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  1. Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab, 9700 S. Cass Ave., 60439, Argonne, IL, USA

    Lixin Fan, David Paterson, Ian McNulty & J. Murray Gibson

  2. Australian Synchrotron, 3168, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    David Paterson

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA

    M. M. J. Treacy & Dushyant Kumar

  4. Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Phong Du & Ulrich Wiesner

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Fan, L., Paterson, D., McNulty, I. et al. Characterization of Medium-Range Order in Self-Assembled Organic-Inorganic Hybrid by Fluctuation X-Ray Microscopy. MRS Online Proceedings Library 960, 909 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-0960-N09-09

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