Optically Induced Nanostructures: Biomedical and Technical Applications

✍ Scribed by Karsten König (editor); Andreas Ostendorf (editor); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 370
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nanostructuring of materials is a task at the heart of many modern disciplines in mechanical engineering, as well as optics, electronics, and the life sciences. This book includes an introduction to the relevant nonlinear optical processes associated with very short laser pulses for the generation of structures far below the classical optical diffraction limit of about 200 nanometers as well as coverage of state-of-the-art technical and biomedical applications. These applications include silicon and glass wafer processing, production of nanowires, laser transfection and cell reprogramming, optical cleaning, surface treatments of implants, nanowires, 3D nanoprinting, STED lithography, friction modification, and integrated optics.

The book highlights also the use of modern femtosecond laser microscopes and nanoscopes as novel nanoprocessing tools.

• Includes a tutorial on materials nanoprocessing with lasers.
• A comprehensive reference for modern nanostructuring applications in engineering and biomedical disciplines.
• Specialises on non-UV (such as near infrared) radiation.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword 1
Foreword 2
Contents
Authors
Tutorial
Part I: Technical applications
1. Nanoprocessing using near-infrared sub-15 femtosecond laser microscopes
2. Nanophotonic applications of fs-laser radiation induced nanostructures and their theoretical description
3. Temporally shaped femtosecond laser pulses for creation of functional sub-100nm structures in dielectrics
4. Design and fabrication of near- to far-field transformers by sub-100nm two-photon polymerization
5. Ultrashort pulse-induced periodic nanostructures in bulk glass: from fundamentals to applications in high-resolution microscopy
6. Nonlinear processing and multiphoton ablation of self-assembled monolayers for application as ultrathin resists and in biochemical sensors
7. Femtosecond laser-induced surface nanostructures for tribological applications
Part II: Biomedical applications
1. Optical reprogramming and optical characterization of cells using femtosecond lasers
2. Nanoscale biofunctionalization of polymer surfaces by laser treatment for controlled cellular differentiation
3. Laser-generated bioactive hydrogels as ion-release systems for burn wound therapy
4. Nanoparticle-loaded bioactive hydrogels
5. Two-photon polymerization of inorganic-organic polymers for biomedical and microoptical applications
6. Optical antennae for near-field induced nonlinear photochemical reactions of photolabile azo- and amine groups
7. Optical trap assisted sub diffraction limited laser structuring
8. STED lithography and protein nanoanchors
Index