@article{53edc59e82b34c7a80324e66c18c03ec,
title = "Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers: Ultrahigh Refractive Index Polymers for Infrared Imaging",
abstract = "We report on the preparation of ultrahigh refractive index polymers via the inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur, selenium, and 1,3-diisopropenylbenzene for use as novel transmissive materials for mid-infrared (IR) imaging applications. Poly(sulfur-random-selenium-random-(1,3-diisopropenylbenzene)) (poly(S-r-Se-r-DIB) terpolymer materials from this process exhibit the highest refractive index of any synthetic polymer (n > 2.0) and excellent IR transparency, which can be directly tuned by terpolymer composition. Sulfur or selenium containing (co)polymers prepared via inverse vulcanization can be described as Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) and are polymeric analogues to wholly inorganic Chalcogenide Glasses (ChGs), which are commonly used as transmissive materials in mid-IR imaging. Finally, we demonstrate that CHIPs composed of (poly(S-r-Se-r-DIB) can be melt processed into windows that enabled high quality mid-IR thermal imaging of human subjects and highly resolved imaging of human vasculature.",
author = "Anderson, {Laura E.} and Kleine, {Tristan S.} and Yueyan Zhang and Phan, {David D.} and Soha Namnabat and LaVilla, {Edward A.} and Konopka, {Katrina M.} and {Ruiz Diaz}, Lilliana and Manchester, {Michael S.} and Jim Schwiegerling and Glass, {Richard S.} and Mackay, {Michael E.} and Kookheon Char and Norwood, {Robert A.} and Jeffrey Pyun",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the NSF (DMR-1607971) and Kuraray for support of this work. K.C. acknowledges the support from NRF for the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids (2010-0018290). D.D.P. acknowledges the NIST award 70NANB15H260 through the Center for Neutron Science at the University of Delaware. University of Delaware{\textquoteright}s funding provided through the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. J.P. declares an actual or potential financial conflict of interest and is cofounder/equity holder in Innovative Energetics, a licensee of University of Arizona (UA) intellectual property. This relationship has been disclosed to the UA Institutional Review Committee and is managed by a Financial Conflict of Interest Management Plan. S.N. acknowledges the support of AFOSR Phases I & II SBIR Contract (FA9550-15- C-0046, FA955017-C4005). Dr. J. Andrew Keyoung is thankfully acknowledged for technical discussions on biomedical imaging. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 American Chemical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1021/acsmacrolett.7b00225",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "6",
pages = "500--504",
journal = "ACS Macro Letters",
issn = "2161-1653",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "5",
}