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Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Photonic Architectures by Soft Nanoimprinting Lithography

Hydroxypropyl Cellulose Photonic Architectures by Soft Nanoimprinting Lithography

André Espinha, Camilla Dore, Cristiano Matricardi, Maria Isabel Alonso, Alejandro R Goñi, Agustín Mihi

Nat Photonics. 2018 Jun;12(6):343-348.

PMID: 29881447

Abstract:

As contamination and environmental degradation increase nowadays, there is a huge demand for new eco-friendly materials. Despite its use for thousands of years, cellulose and its derivatives have gained renewed interest as favourable alternatives to conventional plastics, due to their abundance and lower environmental impact. We report the fabrication of photonic and plasmonic structures by moulding hydroxypropyl cellulose into sub-micrometric periodic lattices, using soft lithography. This is an alternative way to achieve structural colour in this material which is usually obtained exploiting its chiral nematic phase. Cellulose based photonic crystals are biocompatible and can be dissolved in water or not depending on the derivative employed. Patterned cellulose membranes exhibit tuneable colours and may be used to boost the photoluminescence of a host organic dye. Furthermore, we show how metal coating these cellulose photonic architectures leads to plasmonic crystals with excellent optical properties acting as disposable surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP9004642	Hydroxypropyl cellulose		9004-64-2	Price

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