Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays
The performance of any engineering material is naturally limited by its structure, and while each material suffers from one or multiple shortcomings when considered for a particular application, these can be potentially circumvented by hybridization with other materials. By combining organic crystal...
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author | Yang, Xuesong Lan, Linfeng Li, Liang Yu, Jinyang Liu, Xiaokong Tao, Ying Yang, Quan-Hong Naumov, Panče Zhang, Hongyu |
author_facet | Yang, Xuesong Lan, Linfeng Li, Liang Yu, Jinyang Liu, Xiaokong Tao, Ying Yang, Quan-Hong Naumov, Panče Zhang, Hongyu |
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description | The performance of any engineering material is naturally limited by its structure, and while each material suffers from one or multiple shortcomings when considered for a particular application, these can be potentially circumvented by hybridization with other materials. By combining organic crystals with MXenes as thermal absorbers and charged polymers as adhesive counter-ionic components, we propose a simple access to flexible hybrid organic crystal materials that have the ability to mechanically respond to infrared light. The ensuing hybrid organic crystals are durable, respond fast, and can be cycled between straight and deformed state repeatedly without fatigue. The point of flexure and the curvature of the crystals can be precisely controlled by modulating the position, duration, and power of thermal excitation, and this control can be extended from individual hybrid crystals to motion of ordered two-dimensional arrays of such crystals. We also demonstrate that excitation can be achieved over very long distances (>3 m). The ability to control the shape with infrared light adds to the versatility in the anticipated applications of organic crystals, most immediately in their application as thermally controllable flexible optical waveguides for signal transmission in flexible organic electronics. |
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spelling | pubmed-102797562023-06-21 Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays Yang, Xuesong Lan, Linfeng Li, Liang Yu, Jinyang Liu, Xiaokong Tao, Ying Yang, Quan-Hong Naumov, Panče Zhang, Hongyu Nat Commun Article The performance of any engineering material is naturally limited by its structure, and while each material suffers from one or multiple shortcomings when considered for a particular application, these can be potentially circumvented by hybridization with other materials. By combining organic crystals with MXenes as thermal absorbers and charged polymers as adhesive counter-ionic components, we propose a simple access to flexible hybrid organic crystal materials that have the ability to mechanically respond to infrared light. The ensuing hybrid organic crystals are durable, respond fast, and can be cycled between straight and deformed state repeatedly without fatigue. The point of flexure and the curvature of the crystals can be precisely controlled by modulating the position, duration, and power of thermal excitation, and this control can be extended from individual hybrid crystals to motion of ordered two-dimensional arrays of such crystals. We also demonstrate that excitation can be achieved over very long distances (>3 m). The ability to control the shape with infrared light adds to the versatility in the anticipated applications of organic crystals, most immediately in their application as thermally controllable flexible optical waveguides for signal transmission in flexible organic electronics. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10279756/ /pubmed/37336878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39162-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Yang, Xuesong Lan, Linfeng Li, Liang Yu, Jinyang Liu, Xiaokong Tao, Ying Yang, Quan-Hong Naumov, Panče Zhang, Hongyu Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title | Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title_full | Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title_fullStr | Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title_full_unstemmed | Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title_short | Collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with MXene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
title_sort | collective photothermal bending of flexible organic crystals modified with mxene-polymer multilayers as optical waveguide arrays |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10279756/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37336878 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39162-5 |
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