Fast Photoactuation and Environmental Response of Humidity-Sensitive pDAP-Silicon Nanocantilevers

© 2024 The Author(s). Advanced Materials published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH.

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 31 vom: 01. Aug., Seite e2403114
1. Verfasser: Krysztofik, Adam (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pula, Przemyslaw, Pochylski, Mikolaj, Zaleski, Karol, Gapinski, Jacek, Majewski, Pawel, Graczykowski, Bartlomiej
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Brillouin light scattering energy harvesting nanomembranes photoactuation plasma polymerization polyamides water sorption
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Zusammenfassung:© 2024 The Author(s). Advanced Materials published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
Multi-responsive nanomembranes are a new class of advanced materials that can be harnessed in complex architectures for micro and nano-manipulators, artificial muscles, energy harvesting, soft robotics, and sensors. The design and fabrication of responsive membranes must meet such challenges as trade-offs between responsiveness and mechanical durability, volumetric low-cost production ensuring low environmental impact, and compatibility with standard technologies or biological systems This work demonstrates the fabrication of multi-responsive, mechanically robust poly(1,3-diaminopropane) (pDAP) nanomembranes and their application in fast photoactuators. The pDAP films are developed using a plasma-assisted polymerization technique that offers large-scale production and versatility of potential industrial relevance. The pDAP layers exhibit high elasticity with the Young's modulus of ≈7 GPa and remarkable mechanical durability across 20-80 °C temperatures. Notably, pDAP membranes reveal immediate and reversible contraction triggered by light, rising temperature, or reducing relative humidity underpinned by a reversible water sorption mechanism. These features enable the fabrication of photoactuators composed of pDAP-coated Si nanocantilevers, demonstrating ms timescale response to light, tens of µm deflections, and robust performance up to kHz frequencies. These results advance fundamental research on multi-responsive nanomembranes and hold the potential to boost versatile applications in light-to-motion conversion and sensing toward the industrial level
Beschreibung:Date Revised 01.08.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202403114