@article{036595051d984a5fa5050185a2e2bd28,
title = "Application of graphene in coating silk fibril for tunable infrared absorption",
abstract = "Infrared radiation is a primary mechanism for heat exchange between the human body and the environment. In the framework of Mie scattering theory, we investigate the infrared absorption of a graphene-coated silk composite. We found that by coating graphene, the infrared absorption efficiency of silk fibrils is five orders larger than that without graphene coating. The observed significant enhancement in infrared absorption arises from the electromagnetic coupling between graphene and the silk. The effects of graphene's chemical potential and silk fibril diameter are also explored. Our results open a pathway to develop biological nanocomposites with tunable optical and thermal properties.",
keywords = "Graphene, infrared absorption, Mie scattering theory, silk fibril",
author = "Lihong Shi and Yang Huang and Lei Gao and Yuan Cheng",
note = "Funding Information: Y. H. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 11704158), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170170). Y.C. gratefully acknowledges the support from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and the use of computing resources at the A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, and National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore. Funding Information: Y. H. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 11704158), and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170170). Y.C. gratefully acknowledges the support from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and the use of computing resources at the A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, and National Supercomputing Centre, Singapore. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1007/s11664-020-08589-7",
language = "English",
volume = "50",
pages = "592--597",
journal = "Journal of Electronic Materials",
issn = "0361-5235",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "2",
}