Bio-sourced flexible supramolecular glasses for dynamic and full-color phosphorescence
Fei Nie, Dongpeng Yan · 2024
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Description
Fei Nie and Dongpeng Yan make a new kind of glass from food proteins in this 2024 paper. They use egg white and gelatin, both cheap and widely found, to form thin sheets that bend like plastic yet feel hard like glass.
The sheets form as water dries out, with bonds between the two proteins giving both strength and flex. They also glow after light exposure, with color that shifts by the light used and by time, and the glow can last a long while. The team shows the sheets used in hidden patterns and optical codes. The work points to greener, easy to shape glass for screens and tags.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fei Nie, Dongpeng Yan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |