Journal
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100090
Keywords
direct laser lithography; hydrogel; liquid crystalline networks; soft responsive polymers; temperature dependence
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- Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze [2020/1583, 2018/1047]
- Fondo di Beneficenza Intesa San Paolo 2019 [B/2019/0289]
- Fondo premiale FOE [E17G17000300001]
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Research has demonstrated significant improvements in the mechanical stability of microstructured soft polymers through temperature control, expanding the potential applications of functional soft polymers in nanomanufacturing.
Enhancing the resolution of 3D patterning techniques in functional soft polymers enlarges the application areas of responsive shape-changing materials, for tunable nanophotonics and nanorobotics. Thanks to the recent advances of polymer science, the palette of available materials for nanomanufacturing is becoming wider and wider-although the comprehension of their polymerization process by two-photon polymerization is still incomplete. In this work, both shrinking of the minimal polymerizable unit and a significant improvement of the mechanical stability of microstructured soft polymers, in particular of liquid crystalline networks, are demonstrated. To this aim, temperature control enhances the resolution and reduces the swelling of the polymerized structures, thus avoiding deviations of the final structure from the intended design. This fine control on the nanoscale features enables the use of soft responsive materials not only for bulky microelements, but also for high-resolution structures with more complex design.
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