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A paper coauthored by Prof. Tao XIE has been published and highlighted as the back cover in Advanced Functional Materials

Recent collaborative work between Professor Tao XIE and Prof. John Rogers’ group (University of Illinois) has been published in Advanced Functional Materials, with the title of “Deformable, Programmable, and Shape-Memorizing Micro-Optics”. The work was chosen by the journal as the back cover and highlighted by Nanowerk.com and MRS 360.
Traditional micro-optic devices rely on surface microstructures on rigid substrates such as glass to control their optical properties, which cannot be changed once the devices are fabricated due to the substrate rigidity. In this work, we have developed a new generation of micro-optic devices using shape memory polymer as the substrate. The deformable and programmable nature of the substrate enables custom tuning of their microstructures and their corresponding optical properties.