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Transparent and Flexible Photon Sieve Made with Cellulose Nanofiber by Micro-Nano Structure Molding

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Conventionally, the photon sieve (PS) was made of chrome-coated fused silica and quartz plates. However, fused silica and quartz plates have a size limitation due to their weight and fragility. A membrane PS is attractive since it is lightweight, large size, flexibility and deployable. This paper demonstrates the new concept of membrane PS based on cellulose nanofiber (CNF). The CNF-based PS (CNF-PS) is transparent, flexible, lightweight, and has high strength and toughness. This study highlights the PS fabrication on a CNF film using a micro-nano structure molding technique and its structural stability in an external environmental change. For the first time in literature, through a high vacuum (5 × 10–8 Torr) environment test, it was shown that CNF has emerged as a promising optical material. Furthermore, the prepared CNF-PS exhibited high beam quality. This study explained the complete research strategy from the isolation of cellulose nanofibers to its PS application. The new concept of CNF-PS will accelerate its broad application to thin and compact photonic devices.

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This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (NRF-2015R1A3A2066301).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Creative Research Center for Nanocellulose Future Composites, Inha University, Incheon, 22212, South Korea

    Hyun Chan Kim, Lindong Zhai, Pooja S. Panicker & Jaehwan Kim

  2. National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA, 23666, USA

    Hyun Jung Kim

  3. NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 23681, USA

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Kim, H.C., Zhai, L., Panicker, P.S. et al. Transparent and Flexible Photon Sieve Made with Cellulose Nanofiber by Micro-Nano Structure Molding. Int. J. of Precis. Eng. and Manuf.-Green Tech. 9, 1165–1175 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40684-021-00359-y

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