Optically Reconfigurable Chiral Microspheres of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures with Handedness Inversion

Overview

Journal Mater Horiz

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2018 Feb 7

PMID 29403644

Citations 7

Authors

Ling Wang

Dong Chen

Karla G Gutierrez-Cuevas

Hari Krishna Bisoyi

Jing Fan

Rafael S Zola

Guoqiang Li

Augustine M Urbas

Timothy J Bunning

David A Weitz

Quan Li

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Abstract

Optically reconfigurable monodisperse chiral microspheres of self-organized helical superstructures with dynamic chirality were fabricated via a capillary-based microfluidic technique. Light-driven handedness-invertible transformations between different configurations of microspheres were vividly observed and optically tunable RGB photonic cross-communications among the microspheres were demonstrated.

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