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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 20, Issue 20, Pages 3815-3823Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0lc00718h
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- National Science Foundation of China [61590930, 61235003, 61905263]
- Science Foundation for Youths [61605055]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [801161010428]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [18YF1426300]
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Stimulus-responsive optical polymers, especially gels, are enabling new-concept energy-transducing smart optics. Full exploitation of their molecule-derived tuning and integration with traditional micro/nano-optics/optoelectronics rely on the implementation of devices by advanced intelligent micro/nano-manufacturing technologies, especially photolithographies with wide compatibility. In light of the increasing need for an organic combination of smart optical materials and digital micro/nano-manufacturing, novel smart optical micro-switches, namely, stimulus-actuated Mach-Zehnder interferometers as a proof-of-concept demonstration, were prototyped with protein-based hydrogelsviaaqueous multiphoton femtosecond laser direct writing (FsLDW). Protein-based Mach-Zehnder-interferometric smart optical devices here display a morphological quality sufficient for optical applications (average surface roughness <= similar to 20 nm), nano-precision three-dimensional (3D) geometry of these millimeter-scale devices and purposely structured distribution of photo-crosslinking degree. Moreover, the device configuration was customized with unbalanced branches in which meticulous stimulus-responsive ability can be realized by simply tuning the surrounding chemical stimuli (i.e., Na(2)SO(4)concentration here). The heterogeneous configuration with unbalanced branches (i.e., different optical and stimulus-responsive features) exhibits as-designed smart switching of propagated near-infrared light (similar to 808 nm). These capabilities, along with total biodegradation, indicate the application promise of this gel-based optic construction strategy towards novel intelligent, bio/eco-friendly, self-tuning or sensing photonic integrated systems like optofluidics.
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