ArticleNature nanotechnology2020
A rewritable optical storage medium of silk proteins using near-field nano-optics.
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- Light people: Professor Mengkun Liu.Light, science & applications · 2026Article
- Cryo-ET comparison of the hierarchical ultrastructure of silkworm, spider, and artificial silk fibers.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Investigation of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Silk Fibroin (SF) Using the Z-Scan Method.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Non-volatile and Secure Optical Storage Medium with Multilevel Information Encryption.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- A Novel DNA-Based Dual-Mode Data Storage System with Interrelated Concise and Detailed Data.Small science · 2024Article
- Scanning Probe Nano-Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of Biochemical and Natural Materials.Small science · 2024Article
- Far-Field and Non-Intrusive Optical Mapping of Nanoscale Structures.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Scattering-type Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Polymer-Coated Gold Nanoparticles.ACS omega · 2022Article
- In situ infrared nanospectroscopy of the local processes at the Li/polymer electrolyte interface.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- 3D electron-beam writing at sub-15 nm resolution using spider silk as a resist.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Emerging Silk Material Trends: Repurposing, Phase Separation and Solution-Based Designs.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Nanoscale lithography and information storage in biocompatible materials offer possibilities for applications such as bioelectronics and degradable electronics for which traditional semiconductor fabrication techniques cannot be used. Silk fibroin, a natural protein renowned for its strength and biocompatibility, has been widely studied in this context. Here, we present the use of silk film as a biofunctional medium for nanolithography and data storage. Using tip-enhanced near-field infrared nanolithography, we demonstrate versatile manipulation and characterize the topography and conformation of the silk in situ. In particular, we fabricate greyscale and dual-tone nanopatterns with full-width at half-maximum resolutions of ~35 nm, creating an erasable 'silk drive' that digital data can be written to or read from. As an optical storage medium, the silk drive can store digital and biological information with a capacity of ~64 GB inch
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