Nanostructured fibers as a versatile photonic platform: radiative cooling and waveguiding through transverse Anderson localization

作     者：Norman Nan Shi Cheng-Chia Tsai Michael J.Carter Jyotirmoy Mandal Adam C.Overvig Matthew Y.Sfeir Ming Lu Catherine L.Craig Gary D.Bernard Yuan Yang Nanfang Yu 

作者机构：Department of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsColumbia UniversityNew YorkNY 10027USA Center for Functional NanomaterialsBrookhaven National LaboratoryUptonNY 11973USA Museum of Comparative ZoologyHarvard UniversityCambridgeMA 02138USA Department of Electrical EngineeringUniversity of WashingtonSeattleWA 98195USA 

出 版 物：《Light(Science & Applications)》 (光（科学与应用)（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第7卷第1期

页      面：690-698页

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学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：supported by the NSF(grant no.PHY-1411445) the Air Force Office of Scientific Research(grant nos.FA9550-14-1-0389 and FA9550-16-1-0322) supported by the US Department of Energy,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,under contract no.DE-SC0012704. 

主　　题：fibers radiative transverse 

摘      要：Broadband high reflectance in nature is often the result of randomly,three-dimensionally structured materials.This study explores unique optical properties associated with one-dimensional nanostructures discovered in silk cocoon fibers of the comet moth,Argema mittrei.The fibers are populated with a high density of air voids randomly distributed across the fiber cross-section but are invariant along the fiber.These filamentary air voids strongly scatter light in the solar spectrum.A single silk fiber measuring~50μm thick can reflect 66%of incoming solar radiation,and this,together with the fibers’high emissivity of 0.88 in the mid-infrared range,allows the cocoon to act as an efficient radiative-cooling device.Drawing inspiration from these natural radiative-cooling fibers,biomimetic nanostructured fibers based on both regenerated silk fibroin and polyvinylidene difluoride are fabricated through wet spinning.Optical characterization shows that these fibers exhibit exceptional optical properties for radiative-cooling applications:nanostructured regenerated silk fibers provide a solar reflectivity of 0.73 and a thermal emissivity of 0.90,and nanostructured polyvinylidene difluoride fibers provide a solar reflectivity of 0.93 and a thermal emissivity of 0.91.The filamentary air voids lead to highly directional scattering,giving the fibers a highly reflective sheen,but more interestingly,they enable guided optical modes to propagate along the fibers through transverse Anderson localization.This discovery opens up the possibility of using wild silkmoth fibers as a biocompatible and bioresorbable material for optical signal and image transport.