Bockstaller Group published in Nature Communications

The design of hybrid materials exhibiting tailored phononic band gaps is fundamentally relevant to innovative material technologies in areas from acoustics to thermo-optic devices. An international research team including Carnegie Mellon’s Bockstaller and Matyjazsewski has now demonstrated that polymer-tethered colloids can be assembled into a new class of ‘phononic crystal’ materials are amenable to large scale fabrication processing.

E. Alonso-Redondo, M. Schmitt, Z. Urbach, C. M. Hui, R. Sainidou, P. Rembert, K. Matyjaszewski, M. R. Bockstaller, G. Fytas

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150922/ncomms9309/full/ncomms9309.html