A Flexible Topo-optical Sensing Technology with Ultra-high Contrast
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 26484782
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-020-15288-8
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 1448
- First page
- 1448
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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9
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The ability to use surface instabilities with functional material coatings to create a topo-optical sensor led to a £80k studentship at Northumbria funded by Changsha Jinghuazhongxin Hi-Tech Co’Ltd (contact: Zhong Cao jinghuazhongxintech@gmail.com) to develop next generation of paper based electronics technologies. As well as featuring in the online press e.g. EPSRC (https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/news/researchers-discover-novel-optical-sensing-technology/), Materials World (https://www.iom3.org/materials-world-magazine/news/2020/jun/03/elastic-folding-soft-matter-surfaces-aids-highcontrast) and NECONNECTED (https://neconnected.co.uk/fold-to-glitter-researchers-discover-novel-optical-sensing-technology/), this output was part of the body of work for which Prof J. Kong received a NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar award (3M RMB Grant 52025034). Following publication, an invitation to present at the Society of Chemical Industry-CSCST Conference was received (2020, https://www.soci.org/events/chinese-uk-group/2020/27th-cscst-sci-annual-conference-sustainable-energy-and-manufacturing-the-future).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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