Nanoimprinting Pattern on Responsive Microwrinkles for Dynamic Optical Diffraction and Reflection
Dynamic micro/nano-structured surfaces play pivotal roles in biological systems and engineering applications. Despite considerable progress has been made in fabricating precisely ordered architectures, achieving controlled motion in top-down fabricated structures remain a formidable challenge. Here, we introduce an advanced dynamic micron-nano optical platform featuring hierarchical microscale wrinkles integrated with ordered nanoscale arrays. This system is fabricated through a synergistic approach combining top-down thermal nanoimprinting with a subsequent bottom-up self-winkling process, enabled by photoinduced gradient cross-linking in a graphene-doped photosensitive ionic polymer (MHan@G). The MHan@G leverages cationic-π interactions and exhibits photothermal responsiveness. Under near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation, the microwrinkled structures undergo dynamic reconfiguration, thereby inducing a concomitant and coordinated motion within the overlying nanoarray structures. This structure adaptability enables real-time, in situ control over light diffraction and reflection characteristics. By unifying the dynamic tunability of wrinkles with the precision of ordered nanostructures, our platform demonstrates a nondestructive optical modulation strategy. This approach offers potential opportunities for developing functional dynamic surfaces with applications in adaptive optics, tunable metasurfaces, and light-matter interaction engineering.
Authors
- Shilong Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3444-9511)
- Xuesong Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-8491)
- Kexing Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5836-3356)
- Tianjiao Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1011-8753)
- Shuzhen Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6599-151X)
- Wenqiang Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3252-8593)
- Jin Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5632-5774)
- Shuai Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9490-091X)
- Ruoyu Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-4283)
- Jie Qian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3882-3128)
- Mengda Xu
- Ying Quan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3323-7123)
Institutions
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Chemical Synthesis Lab (SG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACS Nano
- Published
- 2025-09-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5c10814
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.14