Nanostructure machining and its application in surface information

Hanheng Du; Tengfei Yin; Denghui Li; Zuankai Wang; Zhiwei Zhu; Suet To

doi:10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102263

Nanostructure machining and its application in surface information

Hanheng Du, Tengfei Yin, Denghui Li, Zuankai Wang, Zhiwei Zhu, Suet To^*

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract

Surface information is of significance in daily life, such as news displaying and information communication. The conventional methods that generate the surface information are to use chemical inks or dyes, which cause environmental pollution problems. Motived by this, this study proposes the mechanical machining method, named as vibration-assisted ultraprecision machining process, to fabricate orderly nanostructures to generate the surface information. Experimental results showed that the surface information “Beat the COVID-19″ in the form of a quick response code was successfully machined on the workpiece surface. The information also can be hidden by manipulating the facet spacing of the adjacent nanostructures. The information “LOVE”, as an example, was hidden on the workpiece surface. It only can be observed at a certain viewing angle. Besides, a replication material was employed to replicate the generated surface information. Finally, the three-dimensional topographies of these orderly nanostructures were characterized and analyzed. The proposed method for generating, hiding, and replicating surface information extends the application range of the vibration-assisted ultraprecision machining process to information science.

Original language	English
Article number	102263
Journal	Surfaces and Interfaces
Volume	33
Online published	2 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102263
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022

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This work was supported by the Special Actions for Developing High-performance Manufacturing of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Grant No.: TC200H02J), the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: PolyU 152125/18E), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No.: U19A20104), and the Shenzhen Basic Research Project (Project No.: JCYJ20210324131214039).

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Nanostructure
Surface information
Vibration generator
Vibration-assisted ultraprecision machining process

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