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Electron Microscopy of Hierarchical Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

C.F. Blanford ,
A. Stein  and
C.B. Carter
C.F. Blanford
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
A. Stein
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
C.B. Carter
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN55455
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Recent innovations in materials chemistry have allowed the preparation of “hierarchical” ceramic and polymer materials that possess features on several different size scales. One of the newest hierarchical materials are ceramics that exhibit a three-dimensional ordered array of half-micron voids. These macroporous structures are synthesized from a liquid ceramic precursor and a polymer colloidal crystal template. This template is extracted by either thermal or chemical methods leaving a structure such as the porous zirconia particle shown in Fig. 1. The final structure of these materials may be thought of as the opposite of opal: the spheres here are the voids. Ordered arrays of dielectric material like these could potentially be used as photonic crystals that interact with visible light. For the microscopist, these materials create new opportunities to study interrelated aspects such as templating, crystallization, and phase transformations.

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was carried out on a Philips CM30 TEM equipped with a LaB6 filament and operating at 300 kV.

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Future of Microscopy: Ceramics, Composites, and Cement
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 5 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '99, Microscopy Society of America 57th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 33rd Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon August 1-5, 1999 , August 1999 , pp. 820 - 821
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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5. This research was supported by the Center for Interfacial Engineering, an NSF research center, NSF, 3M, Dupont, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation.Google Scholar