Laser Photonics and Micro/Nano Fabrication: Towards Innovations in Biomimetic Surface Engineering

A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomimetic Surfaces and Interfaces".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1867

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State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
Interests: laser fabrication for biomimetics; laser-matter interactions; micro/nano-optics
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School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Interests: infrared image detection and recognition; autonomous driving scene perception; machine learning and deep learning algorithms
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Dear Colleagues,

Over millions of years of evolution, creatures have developed properties to combat wretched conditions, where micro-/nano-biostructures are playing a big role. For a long time, human beings have been absorbing nature’s wisdom to accelerate the development of science and technologies. In recent years, to cope with the environmental pollution crisis and global warming crisis, the fields of micro-/nano-structure surfaces have developed significantly for super hydrophobicity, superoleophobicity, antireflection, etc. On the one hand, the tools with which to achieve bio-inspired micro-/nano-structures, especially for hard materials of metals and dielectrics, pose a new challenge. On the other hand, how to expand the application scenario of these structural devices is critical. As a promising and versatile tool, laser combined with other processing technologies has been utilized to manufacture functional structures and devices.

In this regard, we would like to call for submissions of articles aimed at the fabrication/application of biomimetic structures using laser processing technology.

Dr. Lei Wang
Dr. Fan Zhang
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Keywords

  • laser fabrication of bioinspired micro/nanostructures
  • laser fabrication of bioinspired devices
  • micro/nano fabrication

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Multiline Laser Interferometry for Non-Contact Dynamic Morphing of Hierarchical Surfaces
by Biagio Audia, Caterina Maria Tone, Pasquale Pagliusi, Alfredo Mazzulla, George Papavieros, Vassilios Constantoudis and Gabriella Cipparrone
Biomimetics 2025, 10(8), 486; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics10080486 - 23 Jul 2025
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Hierarchical surface structuring is a critical aspect of advanced materials design, impacting fields ranging from optics to biomimetics. Among several laser-based methods for complex structuring of photo-responsive surfaces, the broadband vectorial interferometry proposed here offers unique performances. Such a method leverages a polychromatic [...] Read more.
Hierarchical surface structuring is a critical aspect of advanced materials design, impacting fields ranging from optics to biomimetics. Among several laser-based methods for complex structuring of photo-responsive surfaces, the broadband vectorial interferometry proposed here offers unique performances. Such a method leverages a polychromatic laser source, an unconventional choice for holographic encoding, to achieve deterministic multiscale surface structuring through interference light patterning. Azopolymer films are used as photosensitive substrates. By exploring the interaction between optomechanical stress modulations at different spatial periodicities induced within the polymer bulk, we demonstrate the emergence of hierarchical Fourier surfaces composed of multiple deterministic levels. These structures range from sub-micrometer to tens of micrometers scale, exhibiting a high degree of control over their morphology. The experimental findings reveal that the optical encoding scheme significantly influences the resulting topographies. The polarization light patterns lead to more regular and symmetric hierarchical structures compared to those obtained with intensity patterns, underscoring the role of vectorial light properties in controlling surface morphologies. The proposed method is fully scalable, compatible with more complex recording schemes (including multi-beam interference), and it is applicable to a wide range of advanced technological fields. These include optics and photonics (diffractive elements, polarimetric devices), biomimetic surfaces, topographical design, information encoding, and anti-counterfeiting, offering a rapid, reliable, and versatile strategy for high-precision surface structuring at a submicrometric scale. Full article
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Manufacturing Anti-Reflective Subwavelength Structures on ZnS Using Femtosecond Laser Bessel Beam with Burst Mode
by Haoran Wang, Biwen Li, Liangbin Hu and Fan Zhang
Biomimetics 2024, 9(11), 655; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics9110655 - 26 Oct 2024
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Increasing the transmittance of zinc sulfide (ZnS) infrared windows can effectively improve the imaging quality of infrared detection. In this study, an anti-reflective subwavelength structure (ASS) was manufactured on ZnS using a femtosecond burst Bessel laser with the goal of achieving high transmittance [...] Read more.
Increasing the transmittance of zinc sulfide (ZnS) infrared windows can effectively improve the imaging quality of infrared detection. In this study, an anti-reflective subwavelength structure (ASS) was manufactured on ZnS using a femtosecond burst Bessel laser with the goal of achieving high transmittance in the mid-infrared range. The period and depth parameters of the ASS were initially determined using the effective medium approximation (EMA) theory and subsequently optimized using the rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) method to eliminate surface Fresnel anti-reflections. The depth of the ASS increases with the number of bursts, while the structure profile transitions from Gaussian to conical. In addition, the ASS achieves 86% transmittance in the 7–10 µm range, and the average transmittance improves by 10% in the 5–12 µm range. Moreover, the wide-angle ASS with the hydrophobicity (contact angle 160°) is achieved on the ZnS window. Ultimately, the ASS on ZnS enhances the clarity of the infrared image. Full article
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