Bending light: polymer composites with tunable index of refraction
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An ideal optical material would be one that can precisely guide light without losing a drop of it. Such a material would be invaluable for photonics applications from light detection, telecommunications, information processing, lighting, to metrology, spectroscopy, holography, and medicine. Writing online in the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics, Natalie Stingelin and coworkers demonstrate that achieving this does not necessarily require costly and time-consuming processing. Rather, a one-pot synthesis of a hybrid polymer/inorganic material results in thin films, dielectric filters, and lenses with tailored dimensionality, processability, and functionality
