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Light-regulated Growth from Dynamic Swollen Substrates for Making Rough Surfaces by Xue, Lulu; Xiong, Xinhong; Krishnan, Baiju P.; Puza, Fatih; Wang, Sheng; Zheng, Yijun; Cui, Jiaxi is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Light-regulated Growth from Dynamic Swollen Substrates for Making Rough Surfaces about?
Natural organic structures form via a growth mode in which nutrients are absorbed, transported, and integrated. In contrast, synthetic architectures are constructed through fundamentally different methods, such as assembling, molding, cutting, and printing. Here, we report a photoinduced strategy for regulating the localized growth of microstructures from the surface of a swollen dynamic substrate, by coupling photolysis, photopolymerization, and transesterification together. Photolysis is used to generate dissociable ionic groups to enhance the swelling ability that drives nutrient solutions containing polymerizable components into the irradiated region, photopolymerization converts polymerizable components into polymers, and transesterification incorporates newly formed polymers into the original network structure. Such light-regulated growth is spatially controllable and dose-dependent and allows fine modulation of the size, composition, and mechanical properties of the grown structures. We also demonstrate the application of this process in the preparation of microstructures on a surface and the restoration of large-scale surface damage.
Who reads Light-regulated Growth from Dynamic Swollen Substrates for Making Rough Surfaces?
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- Author
- Xue, Lulu; Xiong, Xinhong; Krishnan, Baiju P.; Puza, Fatih; Wang, Sheng; Zheng, Yijun; Cui, Jiaxi
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; [London]: Nature Publishing Group, 2010-; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc.; Research Square (ISSN 2041-1723)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)