Tunable optical photonic devices made from moth wing scales: a way to enlarge natural functional structures' pool

Tunable Colors in Opals and Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals

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Multidimensional Architectures for Functional Optical Devices

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Preparation and properties of chitosan derivative/poly(vinyl alcohol) blend film crosslinked with glutaraldehyde

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Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly

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Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid (I4132) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales

(2010) V. Saranathan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optoelectrothermic Control of Highly Integrated Polymer-Based MEMS Applied in an Artificial Skin

(2009) Andreas Richter et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cross-Linked Chitosan/Chitin Crystal Nanocomposites with Improved Permeation Selectivity and pH Stability

(2009) Aji P. Mathew et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

A picogram- and nanometre-scale photonic-crystal optomechanical cavity

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Measuring and modelling optical scattering and the colour quality of white pierid butterfly scales

(2009) S.M. Luke et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

A novel pH-sensitive and freeze-thawed carboxymethyl chitosan/poly(vinyl alcohol) blended hydrogel for protein delivery

(2009) Yan Li et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Crosslinked poly(vinyl alcohol) membranes

(2009) Brian Bolto et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Mimicking Domino-Like Photonic Nanostructures on Butterfly Wings

(2009) Tanu Suryadi Kustandi et al.   Small

Preparation and characterization of chitosan/poly(vinyl alcohol) chemically crosslinked blends for biomedical applications

(2008) Ezequiel S. Costa-Júnior et al.   CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS

A review of the diversity and evolution of photonic structures in butterflies, incorporating the work of John Huxley (The Natural History Museum, London from 1961 to 1990)

(2008) A.L Ingram et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Coloration using higher order optical interference in the wing pattern of the Madagascan sunset moth

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