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Bio-organic adaptive photonic crystals enable supramolecular solvatochromism

Jiahao Zhang1,2,3,§, Yan Zhang2,§, Yancheng Wang1,3, Sigal Rencus-Lazar4, Deqing Mei1,3, Ehud Gazit4,5( ), Kai Tao1,2,3( )
State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Zhejiang-Israel Joint Laboratory of Self-Assembling Functional Materials, Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Centre, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311200, China
Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology of Zhejiang Province, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel

§ Jiahao Zhang and Yan Zhang contributed equally to this work.

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Bio-organic adaptive photonic crystals (PCs) are developed by drop-casting of the amphiphilic guanine-based peptide nucleic acid self-assembled microspheres. The configurations and the structural coloration of the microfabricated PCs are sensitive to diverse self-assembly influencing factors such as temperature and solvents, showing solvent polarity-dependent solvatochromism.

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Photonic crystals (PCs) exhibit promising structural coloration properties and possess extensive application prospects in diverse optical fields. However, state-of-the-art inorganic or polymeric PCs show limited adaptivity as their configurations are fixed once formed. Herein, bio-organic adaptive PCs are fabricated via drop-casting of amphiphilic guanine-based peptide nucleic acid self-assembled microspheres. The high formation activation energy of up to 81.8 kJ·mol−1 suggests that the self-assembly step dominates the entire process. Therefore, the configurations along with the structural coloration of the supramolecular PCs are sensitive to self-assembly influencing parameters, showing temperature-encoded structural color evolution and solvent polarity-dependent solvatochromism. Our findings demonstrate that the supramolecular PCs are adaptive, thus showing promising potential for detection of organic solvents of different polarities in a visual and real-time manner for environmental protection or optical applications.

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peptide nucleic acidsmolecular manufacturingsupramolecular photonic crystalssolvatochromic effectsadaptivity

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 10,
October 2023
Pages 12092-12097
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-5331-1
Cite this article:
Zhang J, Zhang Y, Wang Y, et al. Bio-organic adaptive photonic crystals enable supramolecular solvatochromism. Nano Research, 2023, 16(10): 12092-12097. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5331-1
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Received: 11 October 2022
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