Fabrication of Silk Fibroin Photonic Structures By Nanocontact Imprinting

A method of manufacturing a nanopatterned biophotonic structure includes forming a customized nanopattern mask on a substrate using E-beam lithography, providing a biopolymer matrix solution, depositing the biopolymer matrix solution on the substrate, and drying the biopolymer matrix solution to form a solidified biopolymer film. A surface of the film is formed with the nanopattern mask, or a nanopattern is machined directly on a surface of the film using E-beam lithograpy such that the biopolymer film exhibits a spectral signature corresponding to the E-beam lithograpy nanopattern. The resulting biocompatible nanopatterned biophotonic structures may be made from silk, may be biodegradable, and may be bio-sensing devices. The biophotonic structures may employ nanopatterned masks based on non-periodic photonic lattices, and the biophotonic structures may be designed with specific spectral signatures for use in probing biological substances, including displaying optical activity in the form of opalescence.

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Patents:
WO 2,009,061,823

Inventor(s): KAPLAN DAVID [US]; OMENETTO FIORENZO [US]; LAWRENCE BRIAN [US]; CRONIN-GOLUMB MARK [US]; GEORGAKOUDI IRENE [US]; DAL NEGRO LUCA

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