Maillard reaction-derived laser lithography for printing functional inorganics

Photopolymerization-based additive printing of functional inorganics has drawn great attention in recent years and one important challenge is the photoresin loading with diverse inorganics. Here, we introduce a Maillard reaction-derived laser lithography strategy for an unprecedented direct printing of diverse inorganic compounds. The sugar-assisted laser lithography (SLL) is powerful to carry choice metal ions and versatile for the generation of patterned inorganic materials comprising metal oxides, metal sulfides, and metal nitrides, characterized by ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductivity, superconductivity, or other properties. The material architecture is flexibly manipulated by the laser intensity, power, printing speed, precursor solution, and computer-aided design to satisfy the practical requirements. This work demonstrates a new possibility for the further development of laser lithography in the directly printing of feature-rich inorganic materials and devices.