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Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications
Inspired by the wound healing property of certain trees, we report a novel microbes based additive process for producing three dimensional patterns, which has a potential of engineering applications in a variety of fields. Imposing a two dimensional pattern of microbes on a gel media and allowing th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4613880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26486847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15416 |
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author | Mehta, Sunita Murugeson, Saravanan Prakash, Balaji Deepak, |
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description | Inspired by the wound healing property of certain trees, we report a novel microbes based additive process for producing three dimensional patterns, which has a potential of engineering applications in a variety of fields. Imposing a two dimensional pattern of microbes on a gel media and allowing them to grow in the third dimension is known from its use in biological studies. Instead, we have introduced an intermediate porous substrate between the gel media and the microbial growth, which enables three dimensional patterns in specific forms that can be lifted off and used in engineering applications. In order to demonstrate the applicability of this idea in a diverse set of areas, two applications are selected. In one, using this method of microbial growth, we have fabricated microlenses for enhanced light extraction in organic light emitting diodes, where densely packed microlenses of the diameters of hundreds of microns lead to luminance increase by a factor of 1.24X. In another entirely different type of application, braille text patterns are prepared on a normal office paper where the grown microbial colonies serve as braille tactile dots. Braille dot patterns thus prepared meet the standard specifications (size and spacing) for braille books. |
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spelling | pubmed-46138802015-10-29 Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications Mehta, Sunita Murugeson, Saravanan Prakash, Balaji Deepak, Sci Rep Article Inspired by the wound healing property of certain trees, we report a novel microbes based additive process for producing three dimensional patterns, which has a potential of engineering applications in a variety of fields. Imposing a two dimensional pattern of microbes on a gel media and allowing them to grow in the third dimension is known from its use in biological studies. Instead, we have introduced an intermediate porous substrate between the gel media and the microbial growth, which enables three dimensional patterns in specific forms that can be lifted off and used in engineering applications. In order to demonstrate the applicability of this idea in a diverse set of areas, two applications are selected. In one, using this method of microbial growth, we have fabricated microlenses for enhanced light extraction in organic light emitting diodes, where densely packed microlenses of the diameters of hundreds of microns lead to luminance increase by a factor of 1.24X. In another entirely different type of application, braille text patterns are prepared on a normal office paper where the grown microbial colonies serve as braille tactile dots. Braille dot patterns thus prepared meet the standard specifications (size and spacing) for braille books. Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4613880/ /pubmed/26486847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15416 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Mehta, Sunita Murugeson, Saravanan Prakash, Balaji Deepak, Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title | Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title_full | Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title_fullStr | Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title_short | Fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
title_sort | fabrication of three dimensional patterns of wide dimensional range using microbes and their applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4613880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26486847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15416 |
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