Tunable light-focusing behavior of engineered bacterial microlenses with controllable shapes
Lynn M. Sidor, Kathren P Sage, Michelle M. Beaulieu, Dylan F. Wilson, Emerson Jenen, B. Cansu Acarturk, Wil V. Srubar, Greg R. Schmidt, Elio A. Abbondanzieri, Anne S. Meyer
This paper demonstrates how to engineer bacterial cells into different shapes to control their light-focusing behavior, creating microlenses with enhanced optical properties.
bioRxiv · Dec 17, 2025 · PreprintSynthetic Biology