Plastic Morphological Response to Spectral Shifts during Inorganic Phototropic Growth.

ABSTRACT: Plants exhibit phototropism in which growth is directed toward sunlight and demonstrate morphological plasticity in response to changes in the spectral distribution of the incident illumination. Inorganic phototropic growth via template-free, light-directed electrochemical deposition of semiconductor material can spontaneously generate highly ordered mesostructures with anisotropic, nanoscale lamellar features that exhibit a pitch proportional to the wavelength (λ) of the stimulating illumination. In this work, Se-Te films were generated via a two-step inorganic phototropic growth process using a series of narrowband light-emitting diode sources with discrete output wavelengths (λ₀ ≠ λ₁). Analogous to the plasticity observed in plants, changes in illumination waveleng

SUBMITTER: Hamann KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9088297 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature