{"id":42014,"date":"2023-02-24T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=42014"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:36:24","slug":"nanoparticles-perform-ultralong-distance-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2023\/02\/24\/nanoparticles-perform-ultralong-distance-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles perform ultralong distance communication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New class of materials has \u2018no counterpart or analogue in nature\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Northwestern University chemists have designed a new photonic lattice with properties never before seen in nature. In solid materials, atoms must be equally spaced apart and close enough together to interact effectively.<\/p>\n

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Now, new architectures based on stacked lattices of nanoparticles<\/a> show interactions across unprecedentedly large distances.<\/p>\n

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When one lattice is stacked on top of the other, the nanoparticles can still interact with each other \u2014 even when the vertical separation among particles is 1,000 times the distance of the particle-to-particle spacing within the horizontal plane.<\/p>\n

Because the nanoparticles can communicate across ultralong distances, the stacked architecture offers potential remote sensing and detection applications.<\/p>\n

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The study was published<\/a> in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of long-range coupling has not been observed before for any stacked periodic material,\u201d said Teri Odom<\/a>, a senior author of the study. \u201cOther electronic or photonic stacked layers are separated vertically by a spacing similar to the horizontal periodicity of the building unit in the single layer. This is an entirely new class of engineered materials that have no counterpart or analogue in nature.\u201d <\/p>\n

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A nanotechnology expert, Odom is chair of Northwestern\u2019s chemistry department and the Joan Hustling Madden and William H. Madden Jr. Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>. She also is a member of the International Institute of Nanotechnology<\/a> and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute<\/a>. Northwestern co-authors include George Schatz<\/a>, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Weinberg.<\/p>\n

To design the new material, Odom and her team took inspiration from moir\u00e9 patterns, a geometrical design created by two patterns of identical periodic lattices.<\/p>\n

The researchers first patterned photonic lattices consisting of two-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles with separations that promoted horizontal coupling, resulting in single-layer optical materials. Then, they stacked identical nanoparticle lattices on top of each other to create two-layered and multilayered lattices with new optical properties not accessible from one layer alone. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe demonstrated that these stacked nanoparticle lattices can interact over ultralong distances by placing organic dye molecules around only one of the nanoparticle lattices in the stacked structure,\u201d Odom said. \u201cThen we optically excited the dye.\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers discovered that by rotating one lattice relative to the other, they could change how the patterns interact with light. Depending on the twist angle, the stacked material could function as a nanolaser with emission at different angles. This insight opens new approaches to engineering nano-lasing characteristics. The direction and patterns of the moir\u00e9 laser emission can be controlled in real time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be used to create new types of biomedical sensors,\u201d said Jun Guan, the paper\u2019s first author and a postdoctoral fellow in Odom\u2019s laboratory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese devices can be designed to respond to changes in the body, providing important information about a patient\u2019s health. A tiny change in the chemicals in the blood environment can cause changes in the way light bends around the photonic lattices. The moir\u00e9 pattern will magnify this variation and read out by the corresponding laser emission angles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: N<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>orthwestern University<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n