Designing with Light: Advanced 2D, 3D, and 4D Materials

Access to Disparate Soft Matter Materials by Curing with Two Colors of Light

(2019) Sabrina Bialas et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dynamic Covalent Bonds in Polymeric Materials

(2019) Progyateg Chakma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

STED-inspired Laser Lithography Based on Photoswitchable Spirothiopyran Moieties

(2019) Patrick Müller et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

SI-PET-RAFT: Surface-Initiated Photoinduced Electron Transfer-Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization

(2019) Mingxiao Li et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Multimaterial actinic spatial control 3D and 4D printing

(2019) J. J. Schwartz et al.   Nature Communications

Volumetric additive manufacturing via tomographic reconstruction

(2019) Brett E. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

Protection Group Free Synthesis of Sequence-Defined Macromolecules via Precision λ-Orthogonal Photochemistry

(2019) Waldemar Konrad et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Visible-Light-Controlled Ruthenium-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis

(2019) Cédric Theunissen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Plasmonic Lithography: Recent Progress

(2019) Fan Hong et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Tailoring the Mechanical Properties of 3D Microstructures Using Visible Light Post‐Manufacturing

(2019) Marvin Gernhardt et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Stabilized Dynamic Materials

(2019) Hannes A. Houck et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Photochemical Reaction Orthogonality in Modern Macromolecular Science

(2019) Nathaniel Corrigan et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Two in One: Light as a Tool for 3D Printing and Erasing at the Microscale

(2019) Rhiannon Batchelor et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Wavelength‐Selective Folding of Single Polymer Chains with Different Colors of Visible Light

(2019) Hendrik Frisch et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Toward Practical, Subwavelength, Visible-Light Photolithography with Hyperlens

(2018) Jingbo Sun et al.   ACS Nano

A Subtractive Photoresist Platform for Micro- and Macroscopic 3D Printed Structures

(2018) Markus M. Zieger et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Solution Mask Liquid Lithography (SMaLL) for One-Step, Multimaterial 3D Printing

(2018) Neil D. Dolinski et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Gated Rotation in a Molecular Motor Functionalized with a Dithienylethene Switch

(2018) Diederik Roke et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Near-Infrared Sensitized Photoinduced Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) with a Copper(II) Catalyst Concentration in the ppm Range

(2018) Ceren Kütahya et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

2D laser lithography on silicon substrates via photoinduced copper-mediated radical polymerization

(2018) Joachim Laun et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Folding polymer chains with visible light

(2018) Carolin Heiler et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Structure–Property Relationships for Tailoring Phenoxazines as Reducing Photoredox Catalysts

(2018) Blaine G. McCarthy et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Exploiting Charge-Transfer States for Maximizing Intersystem Crossing Yields in Organic Photoredox Catalysts

(2018) Steven M. Sartor et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Visible Light [2 + 2] Cycloadditions for Reversible Polymer Ligation

(2018) David E. Marschner et al.   MACROMOLECULES

3D printing of photopolymers

(2018) Jing Zhang et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Precisely printable and biocompatible silk fibroin bioink for digital light processing 3D printing

(2018) Soon Hee Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Adding chemically selective subtraction to multi-material 3D additive manufacturing

(2018) David Gräfe et al.   Nature Communications

Bistable and photoswitchable states of matter

(2018) Brady T. Worrell et al.   Nature Communications

Reprocessable thermosets for sustainable three-dimensional printing

(2018) Biao Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

o-Nitrobenzyl-Based Photobase Generators: Efficient Photoinitiators for Visible-Light Induced Thiol-Michael Addition Photopolymerization

(2018) Xinpeng Zhang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Seeing the Light: Advancing Materials Chemistry through Photopolymerization

(2018) Nathaniel Corrigan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Simultaneous Preparation of Multiple Polymer Brushes under Ambient Conditions using Microliter Volumes

(2018) Benjaporn Narupai et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Advances in 4D Printing: Materials and Applications

(2018) Xiao Kuang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Controlling Chain Coupling and Single Chain Ligation by Two Colours of Visible Light

(2018) Hendrik Frisch et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Donor–Acceptor Fluorophores for Energy-Transfer-Mediated Photocatalysis

(2018) Jingzhi Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Toolbox Approach To Construct Broadly Applicable Metal-Free Catalysts for Photoredox Chemistry: Deliberate Tuning of Redox Potentials and Importance of Halogens in Donor–Acceptor Cyanoarenes

(2018) Elisabeth Speckmeier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Guiding the Design of Organic Photocatalyst for PET-RAFT Polymerization: Halogenated Xanthene Dyes

(2018) Chenyu Wu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Orthogonal programming of heterogeneous micro-mechano-environments and geometries in three-dimensional bio-stereolithography

(2018) Hang Yin et al.   Nature Communications

Exploiting Wavelength Orthogonality for Successive Photoinduced Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly and Photo-Crosslinking

(2018) Sihao Xu et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Applications of additive manufacturing in dentistry: A review

(2017) Aishwarya Bhargav et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS

Two-photon polymerization for biological applications

(2017) Alexander K. Nguyen et al.   Materials Today

Three-dimensional printing of transparent fused silica glass

(2017) Frederik Kotz et al.   NATURE

In pursuit of Moore’s Law: polymer chemistry in action

(2017) Hong Xu et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Rethinking digital manufacturing with polymers

(2017) Justin Poelma et al.   SCIENCE

Novel Strategy for Photopatterning Emissive Polymer Brushes for Organic Light Emitting Diode Applications

(2017) Zachariah A. Page et al.   ACS Central Science

Sequential self-folding of polymer sheets

(2017) Ying Liu et al.   Science Advances

One-step volumetric additive manufacturing of complex polymer structures

(2017) Maxim Shusteff et al.   Science Advances

Production of Materials with Spatially-Controlled Cross-Link Density via Vat Photopolymerization

(2016) Gregory I. Peterson et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Multilength Scale Patterning of Functional Layers by Roll-to-Roll Ultraviolet-Light-Assisted Nanoimprint Lithography

(2016) Markus Leitgeb et al.   ACS Nano

Humidity- and Photo-Induced Mechanical Actuation of Cross-Linked Liquid Crystal Polymers

(2016) Yuyun Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultrafast Digital Printing toward 4D Shape Changing Materials

(2016) Limei Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Engineering Surfaces through Sequential Stop-Flow Photopatterning

(2016) Christian W. Pester et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Controlled Radical Polymerization: Mechanisms, Methods, and Applications

(2016) Mao Chen et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Photochemical Approaches to Complex Chemotypes: Applications in Natural Product Synthesis

(2016) Markus D. Kärkäs et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Ion Pairing in N,N-Diaryl Dihydrophenazine Photoredox Catalysts for Efficient Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2016) Chern-Hooi Lim et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Desolvation Induced Origami of Photocurable Polymers by Digit Light Processing

(2016) Zeang Zhao et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Photocontrol of fluid slugs in liquid crystal polymer microactuators

(2016) Jiu-an Lv et al.   NATURE

An autonomous actuator driven by fluctuations in ambient humidity

(2016) Hiroki Arazoe et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization driven by visible light

(2016) J. C. Theriot et al.   SCIENCE

Simple Benchtop Approach to Polymer Brush Nanostructures Using Visible-Light-Mediated Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2016) Emre H. Discekici et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Multimaterial 4D Printing with Tailorable Shape Memory Polymers

(2016) Qi Ge et al.   Scientific Reports

Scaling Up Nature: Large Area Flexible Biomimetic Surfaces

(2015) Yinyong Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Photon Upconversion Lithography: Patterning of Biomaterials Using Near-Infrared Light

(2015) Zhijun Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near-Infrared-Sensitive Materials Based on Upconverting Nanoparticles

(2015) Si Wu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanoarchitectonics for Dynamic Functional Materials from Atomic-/Molecular-Level Manipulation to Macroscopic Action

(2015) Katsuhiko Ariga et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

3D Printing of Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels into Complex, Cellularized Structures

(2015) Sungmin Hong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light-Regulated Polymerization under Near-Infrared/Far-Red Irradiation Catalyzed by Bacteriochlorophyll a

(2015) Sivaprakash Shanmugam et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Copper-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization (Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Copper(0) Mediated Polymerization): From Fundamentals to Bioapplications

(2015) Cyrille Boyer et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Switchable Polymerization Catalysts

(2015) Aaron J. Teator et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Development of Pseudorotaxanes and Rotaxanes: From Synthesis to Stimuli-Responsive Motions to Applications

(2015) Min Xue et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Artificial switchable catalysts

(2015) Victor Blanco et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Molecular Design of Light-Responsive Hydrogels, For in Situ Generation of Fast and Reversible Valves for Microfluidic Applications

(2015) Jeroen ter Schiphorst et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

The status, challenges, and future of additive manufacturing in engineering

(2015) Wei Gao et al.   COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN

Exploiting Metalloporphyrins for Selective Living Radical Polymerization Tunable over Visible Wavelengths

(2015) Sivaprakash Shanmugam et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Surface Grafting via Photo-Induced Copper-Mediated Radical Polymerization at Extremely Low Catalyst Concentrations

(2015) Joachim Laun et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Photopolymerization upon LEDs: new photoinitiating systems and strategies

(2015) Céline Dietlin et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Visible light sensitive photoinitiating systems: Recent progress in cationic and radical photopolymerization reactions under soft conditions

(2015) Pu Xiao et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects

(2015) J. R. Tumbleston et al.   SCIENCE

Additive manufacturing of polymer-derived ceramics

(2015) Z. C. Eckel et al.   SCIENCE

Utilizing the electron transfer mechanism of chlorophyll a under light for controlled radical polymerization

(2015) Sivaprakash Shanmugam et al.   Chemical Science

Visible-Light-Controlled Living Radical Polymerization from a Trithiocarbonate Iniferter Mediated by an Organic Photoredox Catalyst

(2015) Mao Chen et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Three-Dimensional Printing of Elastomeric, Cellular Architectures with Negative Stiffness

(2014) Eric B. Duoss et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Evaluation of 3D Printing and Its Potential Impact on Biotechnology and the Chemical Sciences

(2014) Bethany C. Gross et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Functional off-stoichiometry thiol-ene-epoxy thermosets featuring temporally controlled curing stages via an UV/UV dual cure process

(2014) Carl Fredrik Carlborg et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2014) Nicolas J. Treat et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Robust and Versatile Photoinduced Living Polymerization of Conjugated and Unconjugated Monomers and Its Oxygen Tolerance

(2014) Jiangtao Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Advanced scanning probe lithography

(2014) Ricardo Garcia et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Visible light initiating systems for photopolymerization: status, development and challenges

(2014) Jianzhong Shao et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Ultralight, ultrastiff mechanical metamaterials

(2014) X. Zheng et al.   SCIENCE

Visible-Light Initiated Thiol-Michael Addition Photopolymerization Reactions

(2014) Shunsuke Chatani et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Optical storage arrays: a perspective for future big data storage

(2014) Min Gu et al.   Light-Science & Applications

3D Printing of Interdigitated Li-Ion Microbattery Architectures

(2013) Ke Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Visible Light Photoredox Catalysis with Transition Metal Complexes: Applications in Organic Synthesis

(2013) Christopher K. Prier et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Recent advances in dynamic covalent chemistry

(2013) Yinghua Jin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Covalent adaptable networks: smart, reconfigurable and responsive network systems

(2013) Christopher J. Kloxin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Fabrication of Unique Chemical Patterns and Concentration Gradients with Visible Light

(2013) Brett P. Fors et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Photolithographic Olefin Metathesis Polymerization

(2013) Raymond A. Weitekamp et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Resolution Limits of Electron-Beam Lithography toward the Atomic Scale

(2013) Vitor R. Manfrinato et al.   NANO LETTERS

The power of light in polymer science: photochemical processes to manipulate polymer formation, structure, and properties

(2013) Shunsuke Chatani et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Desktop nanofabrication with massively multiplexed beam pen lithography

(2013) Xing Liao et al.   Nature Communications

Three-dimensional deep sub-diffraction optical beam lithography with 9 nm feature size

(2013) Zongsong Gan et al.   Nature Communications

Ultraviolet Light-Induced Surface-Initiated Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2013) Junfeng Yan et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Control of a Living Radical Polymerization of Methacrylates by Light

(2012) Brett P. Fors et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Patterned polymer brushes

(2012) Tao Chen et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Additive manufacturing and its societal impact: a literature review

(2012) Samuel H. Huang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Standing on the shoulders of Hermann Staudinger: Post-polymerization modification from past to present

(2012) Kemal Arda Günay et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Visible Light-Induced Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

(2012) Mehmet Atilla Tasdelen et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Integrated 3D-printed reactionware for chemical synthesis and analysis

(2012) Mark D. Symes et al.   Nature Chemistry

Printing and Prototyping of Tissues and Scaffolds

(2012) B. Derby   SCIENCE

Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware

(2012) J. M. Pearce   SCIENCE

Visible Light and Sunlight Photoinduced ATRP with ppm of Cu Catalyst

(2012) Dominik Konkolewicz et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Photoresponsive hydrogels for biomedical applications

(2011) Itsuro Tomatsu et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Photochemical Reactions as Key Steps in Natural Product Synthesis

(2011) Thorsten Bach et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

NIR-Light-Induced Deformation of Cross-Linked Liquid-Crystal Polymers Using Upconversion Nanophosphors

(2011) Wei Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Soft-lithography fabrication of microfluidic features using thiol-ene formulations

(2011) John F. Ashley et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Beyond PDMS: off-stoichiometry thiol–ene (OSTE) based soft lithography for rapid prototyping of microfluidic devices

(2011) Carl Fredrik Carlborg et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

RAFT Polymerization and Thiol Chemistry: A Complementary Pairing for Implementing Modern Macromolecular Design

(2011) Peter J. Roth et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Hard-tip, soft-spring lithography

(2011) Wooyoung Shim et al.   NATURE

Ultralight Metallic Microlattices

(2011) T. A. Schaedler et al.   SCIENCE

Visible light photoredox catalysis: applications in organic synthesis

(2010) Jagan M. R. Narayanam et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

The power of thiol-ene chemistry

(2010) Matthew J. Kade et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

Tunable polymer multi-shape memory effect

(2010) Tao Xie   NATURE

Visible light photocatalysis as a greener approach to photochemical synthesis

(2010) Tehshik P. Yoon et al.   Nature Chemistry

Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

(2010) Martien A. Cohen Stuart et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Beam pen lithography

(2010) Fengwei Huo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Lithography at EUV wavelengths

(2010) Greg Tallents et al.   Nature Photonics

Capillary Force Lithography: A Versatile Tool for Structured Biomaterials Interface Towards Cell and Tissue Engineering

(2009) Kahp-Yang Suh et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Multiplexed Protein Arrays Enabled by Polymer Pen Lithography: Addressing the Inking Challenge

(2009) Zijian Zheng et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis, Characterization, Properties, and Applications

(2009) Raphael Barbey et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Fully three-dimensional microfabrication with a grayscale polymeric self-sacrificial structure

(2009) Chunguang Xia et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING

Limiting factors in sub-10 nm scanning-electron-beam lithography

(2009) Bryan Cord et al.   JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B

Simple and rapid process for single cell micro-patterning

(2009) Ammar Azioune et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Lithography gets extreme

(2009) Christian Wagner et al.   Nature Photonics

Achieving  /20 Resolution by One-Color Initiation and Deactivation of Polymerization

(2009) L. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Confining Light to Deep Subwavelength Dimensions to Enable Optical Nanopatterning

(2009) T. L. Andrew et al.   SCIENCE

Two-Color Single-Photon Photoinitiation and Photoinhibition for Subdiffraction Photolithography

(2009) T. F. Scott et al.   SCIENCE

Highly Versatile and Robust Materials for Soft Imprint Lithography Based on Thiol-ene Click Chemistry

(2008) Luis M. Campos et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Formation and Surface Modification of Nanopatterned Thiol-ene Substrates using Step and Flash Imprint Lithography

(2008) Vaibhav S. Khire et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthesis of Functional Polymers by Post-Polymerization Modification

(2008) Marc A. Gauthier et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Using living radical polymerization to enable facile incorporation of materials in microfluidic cell culture devices

(2008) Helen M. Simms et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Photochemical Reactions as Key Steps in Organic Synthesis

(2008) Norbert Hoffmann   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Development of New Advanced Resist Materials for Microlithography

(2008) Hiroshi Ito   JOURNAL OF PHOTOPOLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Recent progress in multiphoton microfabrication

(2008) S. Maruo et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

(2008) Xiang Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Patterning surfaces with functional polymers

(2008) Zhihong Nie et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Photolithography system with liquid crystal display as active gray-tone mask for 3D structuring of photoresist

(2008) Terutake Hayashi et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL