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Yu XQ, Wu J, Wang JW, Zhang NX, Qing RK, Li GX, Li Q, Chen S. Facile Access to High Solid Content Monodispersed Microspheres via Dual-Component Surfactants Regulation toward High-Performance Colloidal Photonic Crystals. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2312879. [PMID: 38444241 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202312879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Monodispersed microspheres play a major role in optical science and engineering, providing ideal building blocks for structural color materials. However, the method toward high solid content (HSC) monodispersed microspheres has remained a key hurdle. Herein, a facile access to harvest monodispersed microspheres based on the emulsion polymerization mechanism is demonstrated, where anionic and nonionic surfactants are employed to achieve the electrostatic and steric dual-stabilization balance in a synergistic manner. Monodispersed poly(styrene-butyl acrylate-methacrylic acid) colloidal latex with 55 wt% HSC is achieved, which shows an enhanced self-assembly efficiency of 280% compared with the low solid content (10 wt%) latex. In addition, Ag-coated colloidal photonic crystal (Ag@CPC) coating with near-zero refractive index is achieved, presenting the characteristics of metamaterials. And an 11-fold photoluminescence emission enhancement of CdSe@ZnS quantum dots is realized by the Ag@CPC metamaterial coating. Taking advantage of high assembly efficiency, easily large-scale film-forming of the 55 wt% HSC microspheres latex, robust Ag@CPC metamaterial coatings could be easily produced for passive cooling. The coating demonstrates excellent thermal insulation performance with theoretical cooling power of 30.4 W m-2, providing practical significance for scalable CPC architecture coatings in passive cooling.
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- Xiao-Qing Yu
- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals and Functional Polymer Materials, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210009, P. R. China
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Zhao J, Wu X, Zhang D, Xu X, Wang X, Zhao X. Amber rainbow ribbon effect in broadband optical metamaterials. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2613. [PMID: 38521781 PMCID: PMC10960806 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46914-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024] Open
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Using the trapped rainbow effect to slow down or even stop light has been widely studied. However, high loss and energy leakage severely limited the development of rainbow devices. Here, we observed the negative Goos-Hänchen effect in film samples across the entire visible spectrum. We also discovered an amber rainbow ribbon and an optical black hole due to perfect back reflection in optical waveguides, where little light leaks out. Not only does the amber rainbow ribbon effect show an automatic frequency selection response, as predicted by single frequency theoretical models and confirmed by experiments, it also shows spatial periodic regulation, resulting from broadband omnidirectional visible metamaterials prepared by disordered assembly systems. This broadband light trapping system could play a crucial role in the fields of optical storage and information processing when being used to construct ultra-compact modulators and other tunable devices.
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- Jing Zhao
- Medtronic Plc, Boulder, CO, 80301, USA.
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- Smart Materials Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China
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- Smart Materials Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China
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- Smart Materials Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China
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- Smart Materials Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China
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- Smart Materials Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China.
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Lafitte M, Dwivedi R, Elancheliyan R, Lagugné-Labarthet F, Buisson L, Ly I, Barois P, Baron A, Mondain-Monval O, Ponsinet V. Colloidal Self-Assembly of Silver Nanoparticle Clusters for Optical Metasurfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:2601-2615. [PMID: 38279929 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2024]
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Optical metasurfaces are two-dimensional assemblies of nanoscale optical resonators and could constitute the next generation of ultrathin optical components. The development of methods to manufacture these nanostructures on a large scale is still a challenge, while most performance demonstrations were obtained with lithographically fabricated metasurfaces that are restricted to small scales. Self-assembly fabrication routes are promising alternatives and have been used to produce original nanoresonators. Reports of self-assembled metasurface fabrication, however, are still scarce. Here, we show that an emulsion-based formulation approach can be used both for the fabrication of complex colloidal resonators, presenting a strong interaction with light, in particular due to simultaneous magnetic and electric modes of resonance, and for their deposition in homogeneous films. This fabrication technique involves emulsification of an aqueous suspension of silver nanoparticles in an oil phase, followed by controlled drying of the emulsion, and produces silver colloidal clusters. We show that the drying process can be controlled in a liquid emulsion, producing a metafluid, as well as in a sedimented emulsion, producing a metasurface. The structural control of the synthesized colloidal clusters is demonstrated with electron microscopy and X-ray scattering techniques. Using a polarization-resolved multiangle light scattering setup in the visible wavelength range, we conduct a comprehensive angular and spectroscopic study of the optical resonant scattering of the nanoresonators in a metafluid and show that they present strong optical magnetic resonances and directional forward-scattering patterns, with scattering efficiencies of up to 4. The metasurfaces consist of homogeneous films, of variable surface density, of colloidal clusters that have the same extinction properties on the surface and in the fluid. This experimental approach allows for large-scale production of metasurfaces.
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- Maeva Lafitte
- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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- ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence, Wolczynska 133, Warsaw 01-919, Poland
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, UMR 5221, CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier F-34095, France
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario (Western University), London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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- Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, UMR 5031, Univ. Bordeaux and CNRS, Pessac F-33600, France
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Marín-Aguilar S, Camerin F, van der Ham S, Feasson A, Vutukuri HR, Dijkstra M. A colloidal viewpoint on the sausage catastrophe and the finite sphere packing problem. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7896. [PMID: 38036561 PMCID: PMC10689752 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43722-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
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It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectured that a linear arrangement may actually result in the densest packing. Here, our combined experimental and simulation study provides a physical realization of the finite sphere packing problem by studying arrangements of colloids in a flaccid lipid vesicle. We map out a state diagram displaying linear, planar, and cluster conformations of spheres, as well as bistable states which alternate between cluster-plate and plate-linear conformations due to membrane fluctuations. Finally, by systematically analyzing truncated polyhedral packings, we identify clusters of 56 ≤ N ≤ 70 number of spheres, excluding N = 57 and 63, that pack more efficiently than linear arrangements.
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- Susana Marín-Aguilar
- Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, Utrecht, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, Utrecht, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Hiroshima, Japan.
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- Active Soft Matter and Bio-inspired Materials Lab, Faculty of Science and Technology, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Active Soft Matter and Bio-inspired Materials Lab, Faculty of Science and Technology, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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- Active Soft Matter and Bio-inspired Materials Lab, Faculty of Science and Technology, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- Soft Condensed Matter & Biophysics, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, Utrecht, 3584 CC, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Hiroshima, Japan.
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Cai YY, Choi YC, Kagan CR. Chemical and Physical Properties of Photonic Noble-Metal Nanomaterials. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2108104. [PMID: 34897837 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202108104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2021] [Revised: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Colloidal noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) are composed of metal cores and organic or inorganic ligand shells. These NPs support size- and shape-dependent plasmonic resonances. They can be assembled from dispersions into artificial metamolecules which have collective plasmonic resonances originating from coupled bright and dark optical electric and magnetic modes that form depending on the size and shape of the constituent NPs and their number, arrangement, and interparticle distance. NPs can also be assembled into extended 2D and 3D metamaterials that are glassy thin films or ordered thin films or crystals, also known as superlattices and supercrystals. The metamaterials have tunable optical properties that depend on the size, shape, and composition of the NPs, and on the number of NP layers and their interparticle distance. Interestingly, strong light-matter interactions in superlattices form plasmon polaritons. Tunable interparticle distances allow designer materials with dielectric functions tailorable from that characteristic of an insulator to that of a metal, and serve as strong optical absorbers or scatterers, respectively. In combination with lithography techniques, these extended assemblies can be patterned to create subwavelength NP superstructures and form large-area 2D and 3D metamaterials that manipulate the amplitude, phase, and polarization of transmitted or reflected light.
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- Yi-Yu Cai
- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Lu B, Vegso K, Micky S, Ritz C, Bodik M, Fedoryshyn YM, Siffalovic P, Stemmer A. Tunable Subnanometer Gaps in Self-Assembled Monolayer Gold Nanoparticle Superlattices Enabling Strong Plasmonic Field Confinement. ACS NANO 2023. [PMID: 37354449 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c03804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/26/2023]
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Nanoparticle superlattices produced with controllable interparticle gap distances down to the subnanometer range are of superior significance for applications in electronic and plasmonic devices as well as in optical metasurfaces. In this work, a method to fabricate large-area (∼1 cm2) gold nanoparticle (GNP) superlattices with a typical size of single domains at several micrometers and high-density nanogaps of tunable distances (from 2.3 to 0.1 nm) as well as variable constituents (from organothiols to inorganic S2-) is demonstrated. Our approach is based on the combination of interfacial nanoparticle self-assembly, subphase exchange, and free-floating ligand exchange. Electrical transport measurements on our GNP superlattices reveal variations in the nanogap conductance of more than 6 orders of magnitude. Meanwhile, nanoscopic modifications in the surface potential landscape of active GNP devices have been observed following engineered nanogaps. In situ optical reflectance measurements during free-floating ligand exchange show a gradual enhancement of plasmonic capacitive coupling with a diminishing average interparticle gap distance down to 0.1 nm, as continuously red-shifted localized surface plasmon resonances with increasing intensity have been observed. Optical metasurfaces consisting of such GNP superlattices exhibit tunable effective refractive index over a broad wavelength range. Maximal real part of the effective refractive index, nmax, reaching 5.4 is obtained as a result of the extreme field confinement in the high-density subnanometer plasmonic gaps.
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- Bin Lu
- Nanotechnology Group, ETH Zürich, Säumerstasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Institute of Physics SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Nanotechnology Group, ETH Zürich, Säumerstasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Nanotechnology Group, ETH Zürich, Säumerstasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics SAS, Dubravska cesta 9, 84511 Bratislava, Slovakia
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- Nanotechnology Group, ETH Zürich, Säumerstasse 4, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland
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Swinkels PJM, Gong Z, Sacanna S, Noya EG, Schall P. Phases of surface-confined trivalent colloidal particles. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:3414-3422. [PMID: 37060129 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01237e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Patchy colloids promise the design and modelling of complex materials, but the realization of equilibrium patchy particle structures remains challenging. Here, we assemble pseudo-trivalent particles and elucidate their phase behaviour when confined to a plane. We observe the honeycomb phase, as well as more complex amorphous network and triangular phases. Structural analysis performed on the three condensed phases reveals their shared structural motifs. Using a combined experimental and simulation approach, we elucidate the energetics of these phases and construct the phase diagram of this system, using order parameters to determine the phase coexistence lines. Our results reveal the rich phase behaviour that a relatively simple patchy particle system can display, and open the door to a larger joined simulation and experimental exploration of the full patchy-particle phase space.
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- Piet J M Swinkels
- Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Molecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, USA
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- Molecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, USA
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- Instituto de Química-Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Wang Y, Niu J, Jin X, Qian X, Xiao C, Wang W. Molecularly Resonant Metamaterials for Broad-Band Electromagnetic Stealth. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2023:e2301170. [PMID: 37085919 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202301170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 04/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Electromagnetic (EM) metamaterial is a composite material with EM stealth properties, which is constructed by artificially reverse engineering metal split resonance rings (SRR). However, the greatest limitation of EM metamaterials is that they can only stealth at a fixed and lower frequency of EM waves, and modern processing techniques still cannot meet the accuracy requirements to fabric nano-size structural unit. Nano-sized and even ultra-small SRR at molecular level are promising arrays to realize the ability of EM stealth function at a higher frequency, although it has proven challenging to synthesize long, straight, connected molecular SRR, and also difficult to arrange those molecular SRR into a strict array. Here, the study overcomes this challenge and demonstrates that the fabric of polypyrrole molecular SRR achieves an ultra-small inner diameter of 2.49 Å and realizes the arrays arrangement at molecular level. Furthermore, the study exploits the EM stealth function and verifies that such arrays of molecular SRR with 2.49 Å have the ability to reach high-performance EM stealth in the range of 106 -1016 Hz. This design concept opens a pathway for developing new metamaterials with broadband EM wave stealth and also serves the wider range of new applications.
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- Yifan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
- Fiber Materials Research Center, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, 201620, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Separation Membranes and Membrane Processes, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China
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Nguyen TM, Cho Y, Huh JH, Ahn H, Kim N, Rho KH, Lee J, Kwon M, Park SH, Kim C, Kim K, Kim YS, Lee S. Ultralow-Loss Substrate for Nanophotonic Dark-Field Microscopy. NANO LETTERS 2023; 23:1546-1554. [PMID: 36757958 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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For the colloidal nanophotonic structures, a transmission electron microscope (TEM) grid has been widely used as a substrate of dark-field microscopy because a nanometer-scale feature can be effectively determined by TEM imaging following dark-field microscopic studies. However, an optically lossy carbon layer has been implemented in conventional TEM grids. A broadband scattering from the edges of the TEM grid further restricted an accessible signal-to-noise ratio. Herein, we demonstrate that the freely suspended, ultrathin, and wide-scale transparent nanomembrane can address such challenges. We developed a 1 mm by 600 μm scale and 20 nm thick poly(vinyl formal) nanomembrane, whose area is around 180 times wider than a conventional TEM grid, so that the possible broadband scattering at the edges of the grid was effectively excluded. Also, such nanomembranes can be formed without the assistance of carbon support; allowing us to achieve the highest signal-to-background ratio of scattering among other substrates.
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- Thang Minh Nguyen
- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomicrosystem Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomicrosystem Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Display Research Center, Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI), Gyeonggi-do 13509, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomicrosystem Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Integrative Energy Engineering (College of Engineering) and KU Photonics Center, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Post-Silicon Semiconductor Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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Sun W, Lou Z, Xu L, Ma Q, Han H, Chen M, Wang Q, Han J, Li Y. Bioinspired Carbon Superstructures for Efficient Electromagnetic Shielding. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:4358-4370. [PMID: 36622958 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c21622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Biologically inspired superstructural materials exhibit wide application prospects in many fields, in terms of mitigating increasingly serious electromagnetic (EM) pollution in the civil field. Here, we successfully obtain bamboo slices with uniform pore size distribution through the advanced bamboo transverse splitting technology developed by our group previously and prepare large-scale honeycomb-like carbon-based tubular array (CTA) structures with a controllable pore size, graphitization degree, and selectable conductivity property. Based on the simulation and experimental results, the EM shielding performance of CTAs is proven to be sensitive to the microchannel aperture size and the EM energy incident angle, which is attributed to the difference in the propagation rate of induced electrons in different directions. Among the candidates, CTA-middle-1500 exhibits the best shielding performance against incident EM energy with average SE/ρ values of 123.7 and 144.5 dB cm3 g-1 for perpendicular and parallel directions, respectively, showing its application potential as a lightweight and efficient EM shielding material. The predicted optimal incident angle for CTA-middle-1500 against EM energy radiation is 15°, with the largest RCS reduction value of 26.1 dB m2. The excellent EM shielding performance is attributed to the good reflection capacity involved with the high conductivities of the CTAs.
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- Wei Sun
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Agricultural Facilities and Equipment, Key Laboratory for Protected Agricultural Engineering in the Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu210014, People's Republic of China
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- International Center of Bamboo and Rattan, Beijing100102, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing210037, People's Republic of China
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Trubiano A, Hagan MF. Optimization of non-equilibrium self-assembly protocols using Markov state models. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:244901. [PMID: 36586982 PMCID: PMC9788858 DOI: 10.1063/5.0130407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The promise of self-assembly to enable the bottom-up formation of materials with prescribed architectures and functions has driven intensive efforts to uncover rational design principles for maximizing the yield of a target structure. Yet, despite many successful examples of self-assembly, ensuring kinetic accessibility of the target structure remains an unsolved problem in many systems. In particular, long-lived kinetic traps can result in assembly times that vastly exceed experimentally accessible timescales. One proposed solution is to design non-equilibrium assembly protocols in which system parameters change over time to avoid such kinetic traps. Here, we develop a framework to combine Markov state model (MSM) analysis with optimal control theory to compute a time-dependent protocol that maximizes the yield of the target structure at a finite time. We present an adjoint-based gradient descent method that, in conjunction with MSMs for a system as a function of its control parameters, enables efficiently optimizing the assembly protocol. We also describe an interpolation approach to significantly reduce the number of simulations required to construct the MSMs. We demonstrate our approach with two examples; a simple semi-analytic model for the folding of a polymer of colloidal particles, and a more complex model for capsid assembly. Our results show that optimizing time-dependent protocols can achieve significant improvements in the yields of selected structures, including equilibrium free energy minima, long-lived metastable structures, and transient states.
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- Anthony Trubiano
- Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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- Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA
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Torres-Huerta AL, Antonio-Pérez A, García-Huante Y, Alcázar-Ramírez NJ, Rueda-Silva JC. Biomolecule-Based Optical Metamaterials: Design and Applications. BIOSENSORS 2022; 12:962. [PMID: 36354471 PMCID: PMC9688573 DOI: 10.3390/bios12110962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Metamaterials are broadly defined as artificial, electromagnetically homogeneous structures that exhibit unusual physical properties that are not present in nature. They possess extraordinary capabilities to bend electromagnetic waves. Their size, shape and composition can be engineered to modify their characteristics, such as iridescence, color shift, absorbance at different wavelengths, etc., and harness them as biosensors. Metamaterial construction from biological sources such as carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids represents a low-cost alternative, rendering high quantities and yields. In addition, the malleability of these biomaterials makes it possible to fabricate an endless number of structured materials such as composited nanoparticles, biofilms, nanofibers, quantum dots, and many others, with very specific, invaluable and tremendously useful optical characteristics. The intrinsic characteristics observed in biomaterials make them suitable for biomedical applications. This review addresses the optical characteristics of metamaterials obtained from the major macromolecules found in nature: carbohydrates, proteins and DNA, highlighting their biosensor field use, and pointing out their physical properties and production paths.
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- Ana Laura Torres-Huerta
- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Av. Lago de Guadalupe KM 3.5, Margarita Maza de Juárez, Cd. López Mateos, Atizapán de Zaragoza 52926, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Av. Lago de Guadalupe KM 3.5, Margarita Maza de Juárez, Cd. López Mateos, Atizapán de Zaragoza 52926, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA-IPN), Mexico City 07340, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Av. Lago de Guadalupe KM 3.5, Margarita Maza de Juárez, Cd. López Mateos, Atizapán de Zaragoza 52926, Mexico
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- Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, Av. Lago de Guadalupe KM 3.5, Margarita Maza de Juárez, Cd. López Mateos, Atizapán de Zaragoza 52926, Mexico
- Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK
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Petrescu DS, Zahr OK, Abu-Baker I, Blum AS. Biomolecular Self-Assembly of Nanorings on a Viral Protein Template. Biomacromolecules 2022; 23:3407-3416. [PMID: 35791729 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.2c00535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Dan S. Petrescu
- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal H3A 0B8, Canada
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Dong Y, Liu J, Lu X, Duan J, Zhou L, Dai L, Ji M, Ma N, Wang Y, Wang P, Zhu JJ, Min Q, Gang O, Tian Y. Two-Stage Assembly of Nanoparticle Superlattices with Multiscale Organization. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:3809-3817. [PMID: 35468287 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Self-assembly processes, while promising for enabling the fabrication of complexly organized nanomaterials from nanoparticles, are often limited in creating structures with multiscale order. These limitations are due to difficulties in practically realizing the assembly processes required to achieve such complex organizations. For a long time, a hierarchical assembly attracted interest as a potentially powerful approach. However, due to the experimental limitations, intermediate-level structures are often heterogeneous in composition and structure, which significantly impacts the formation of large-scale organizations. Here, we introduce a two-stage assembly strategy: DNA origami frames scaffold a coordination of nanoparticles into designed 3D nanoclusters, and then these clusters are assembled into ordered lattices whose types are determined by the clusters' valence. Through modulating the nanocluster architectures and intercluster bindings, we demonstrate the successful formation of complexly organized nanoparticle crystals. The presented two-stage assembly method provides a powerful fabrication strategy for creating nanoparticle superlattices with prescribed unit cells.
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- Yuxiang Dong
- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble 38000, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York 10027, United States
- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, Chemistry and Biomedicine Innovation Center, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Nanjing University, Shenzhen 518000, China
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Haidari G. Towards realistic modeling of plasmonic nanostructures: a comparative study to determine the impact of optical effects on solar cell improvement. JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL ELECTRONICS 2022; 21:137-152. [PMID: 35075354 PMCID: PMC8769782 DOI: 10.1007/s10825-021-01829-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
Abstract
UNLABELLED Plasmonic structures may improve cell performance in a variety of ways. More accurate determining of the optical influence, unlike ideal simulations, requires modeling closer to experimental cases. In this modeling and simulation, irregular nanostructures were chosen and divided into three groups and some modes. For each mode, different sizes of nanoparticles were randomly selected, which could result in pre-determined average particle size and standard deviation. By 3D finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD), the optical plasmonic properties of that mode in a solar cell structure were investigated when the nanostructure was added to the buffer/active layer of the organic solar cell. The far- and near-field results were used to compare the plasmonic behavior, relying on the material and geometry. By detailed simulations, Al and Ag nanostructure at the interface of the ZnO/active layer can improve organic solar cell performance optically, especially by the near-field effect. Unlike Au and relative Ag, the Al nanostructured sample showed less parasitic absorption loss. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10825-021-01829-x.
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- Gholamhosain Haidari
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
- Nanotechnology Research Institute, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
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Trubiano A, Holmes-Cerfon M. Thermodynamic stability versus kinetic accessibility: Pareto fronts for programmable self-assembly. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:6797-6807. [PMID: 34223604 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00681a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A challenge in designing self-assembling building blocks is to ensure the target state is both thermodynamically stable and kinetically accessible. These two objectives are known to be typically in competition, but it is not known how to simultaneously optimize them. We consider this problem through the lens of multi-objective optimization theory: we develop a genetic algorithm to compute the Pareto fronts characterizing the tradeoff between equilibrium probability and folding rate, for a model system of small polymers of colloids with tunable short-ranged interaction energies. We use a coarse-grained model for the particles' dynamics that allows us to efficiently search over parameters, for systems small enough to be enumerated. For most target states there is a tradeoff when the number of types of particles is small, with medium-weak bonds favouring fast folding, and strong bonds favouring high equilibrium probability. The tradeoff disappears when the number of particle types reaches a value m*, that is usually much less than the total number of particles. This general approach of computing Pareto fronts allows one to identify the minimum number of design parameters to avoid a thermodynamic-kinetic tradeoff. However, we argue, by contrasting our coarse-grained model's predictions with those of Brownian dynamics simulations, that particles with short-ranged isotropic interactions should generically have a tradeoff, and avoiding it in larger systems will require orientation-dependent interactions.
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- Anthony Trubiano
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA.
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, New York 10012, USA.
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