3D and Inkjet Printing by Colored Mie-Resonant Silicon Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation in Liquid

Lev Logunov; Aleksandr Ulesov; Vladislava Khramenkova; Xiuzhen Liu; Aleksandr A Kuchmizhak; Alexander Vinogradov; Sergey Makarov

doi:10.3390/nano13060965

3D and Inkjet Printing by Colored Mie-Resonant Silicon Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation in Liquid

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2023 Mar 7;13(6):965. doi: 10.3390/nano13060965.

Authors

Lev Logunov¹, Aleksandr Ulesov², Vladislava Khramenkova², Xiuzhen Liu³, Aleksandr A Kuchmizhak^{4

5

6}, Alexander Vinogradov², Sergey Makarov^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg 191002, Russia.
² SCAMT, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg 191002, Russia.
³ Qingdao Innovation and Development Center, Harbin Engineering University, Qingdao 266000, China.
⁴ Institute for Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690041, Russia.
⁵ Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok 690922, Russia.
⁶ Institute of Chemistry, Saint Petersburg State University, 26 Universitetskii pr, Saint Petersburg 198504, Russia.

Abstract

Optically resonant silicon nanoparticles have emerged as a prospective platform for the structural coloration of surfaces because of their strong and spectrally selective light scattering. In this work, we developed colorful inks based on polymer mixed with monodisperse Mie-resonant silicon nanoparticles for 3D and inkjet printing. We applied a laser ablation method in a flow cell for the mass production of silicon nanoparticles in water and separated the resulting nanoparticles with different sizes by density-gradient centrifugation. Mixing the colorful nanoparticles with the polymer allows for the printing of 3D objects with various shapes and colors, which are rigid against environmental conditions.

Keywords: Mie resonances; coloring; laser ablation; nanoparticles; printings; silicon.

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