Optomechanical Protein Switch

We demonstrate photomechanical actuation by measuring the variation of the diffracted orders in a free-standing nanopatterned diazonium-modified silk fibroin film by modulating a blue excitation light source.

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DOI: 10.1364/cleo.2010.jwa79
Year: 2010
Published: —
Language: en

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Volume: 87
Link Of The Paper: https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo.2010.jwa79

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