Designing Complex Tapestries with Photography-Inspired Manipulation of Self-Organized Thin-Films.

ABSTRACT: Thin-films patterned with complex motifs are of fundamental interest because of their advanced optical, mechanical and electronic properties, but fabrication of these materials remains challenging. Self-organization strategies, such as immersion controlled reaction-diffusion patterning, have shown great potential for production of patterned thin-films. However, the autonomous nature of such processes limits controllable pattern customizability and complexity. Here, it is demonstrated that photography inspired manipulation processes can overcome this limitation to create highly-complex tapestries of micropatterned films (MPF's). Inspired by classical photographic processes, MPF's are developed, bleached, exposed, fixed, and contoured into user-defined shapes and photographic toning reaction

SUBMITTER: van Campenhout CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11220642 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature