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11 June 2024 Bio-inspired building blocks for all-organic metamaterials
Sara Núñez-Sánchez, Martín López-García, Carla Estévez-Varela, Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Samuel Thomas Holder, Ruth Oulton
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Proceedings Volume PC12990, Metamaterials XIV; PC129900B (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017589
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2024, Strasbourg, France
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Light-harvesting structures in natural photosynthetic organelles, such as those in purple bacteria, consist of light-responsive chromophores in densely packed antennae systems with organized nanostructures. Inspired by these biological systems, we've created organic materials with densely packed J-aggregates in a polymeric matrix, mimicking the optical role of a protein scaffold. These materials exhibit tunable polaritonic properties from visible to infrared. Drawing from the structure of light-harvesting complexes in purple bacteria, we've studied interactions between light and J-aggregate-based nanorings. Electromagnetic simulations show these nanorings act as resonators, confining light beyond subwavelength scales. These findings enable bio-inspired building components for metamaterials spanning the visible to infrared spectrum in an all-organic platform, offering a fresh perspective on nanoscale light-matter interactions in densely packed organic materials in biological organisms, including photosynthetic organelles.
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Sara Núñez-Sánchez, Martín López-García, Carla Estévez-Varela, Isabel Pastoriza-Santos, Samuel Thomas Holder, and Ruth Oulton "Bio-inspired building blocks for all-organic metamaterials", Proc. SPIE PC12990, Metamaterials XIV, PC129900B (11 June 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3017589
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KEYWORDS
Biomimetics
Metamaterials
Bacteria
Organic materials
Chromophores
Infrared radiation
Molecular interactions
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