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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 187, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/64374
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- Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Swiss National Science Foundation [P1SKP2 187676]
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science & Engineering (SGF)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [HR00112220010]
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-1656518]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P1SKP2_187676] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Triplet fusion upconversion technology enables the generation of high energy light from low energy input photons, which has significant implications for generating high energy light beyond a material's surface. Nanoencapsulation technology has been developed to overcome the challenges in the deployment of UC materials, and this new technique of nanoencapsulation using oleic acid nanodroplets encapsulated with a silica shell has achieved durable nanocapsules for volumetric 3D printing.
Triplet fusion upconversion (UC) allows for the generation of one high energy photon from two low energy input photons. This well-studied process has significant implications for producing high energy light beyond a material's surface. However, the deployment of UC materials has been stymied due to poor material solubility, high concentration requirements, and oxygen sensitivity, ultimately resulting in reduced light output. Toward this end, nanoencapsulation has been a popular motif to circumvent these challenges, but durability has remained elusive in organic solvents. Recently, a nanoencapsulation technique was engineered to tackle each of these challenges, whereupon an oleic acid nanodroplet containing upconversion materials was encapsulated with a silica shell. Ultimately, these nanocapsules (NCs) were durable enough to enable triplet fusion upconversion-facilitated volumetric threedimensional (3D) printing. By encapsulating upconversion materials with silica and dispersing them in a 3D printing resin, photopatterning beyond the surface of the printing vat was made possible. Here, video protocols for the synthesis of upconversion NCs are presented for both small-scale and large-scale batches. The outlined protocols serve as a starting point for adapting this encapsulation scheme to multiple upconversion schemes for use in volumetric 3D printing applications.
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