title: Luminous exothermic hollow optical elements for enhancement of biofilm growth and activity.
abstract: In this work, we present a luminous-exothermic hollow optical element (LEHOE) that performs spectral beam splitting in the visible spectral range for the enhancement of biofilm growth and activity. The LEHOE is composed of a four-layer structure with a fiber core (air), cladding (SiO2), coating I (LaB6film), and coating II (SiO2-Agarose-Medium film). To clarify the physical, optical and photothermal conversion properties of the LEHOE, we determined the surface morphology and composition of the coating materials, and examined the luminous intensity and heating rate at the LEHOE surface. The biofilm activity on the biocompatible LEHOE is far greater than that of commercial fibers, and the biofilm weight on the LEHOE is 4.5 × that of the uncoated hollow optical element.
authors.forename: Nianbing
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authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Mingfu
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authors.lastname: Zhao
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authors.forename: Shan
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authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Binbin
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authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Tao
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authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Shenghui
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authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Xinyu
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authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Xin
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authors.lastname: Xin
authors.forename: Ruohua
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authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yanyan
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authors.lastname: Cen
authors.forename: Zhengkun
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authors.lastname: Wang