Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

None of the global targets for protecting nature are currently met, although humanity is
critically dependent on biodiversity. A significant issue is the lack of data for most biodiverse …

In this paper, a full-Stokes imaging polarimeter operating at 580 nm using an array of
elliptical polarizers is presented. The division-of-focal-plane polarimeter utilizes a set of four …

A division-of-focal-plane polarimeter based on a dichroic dye and liquid crystal polymer
guest-host system is presented. Two Stokes polarimeters are demonstrated: a linear Stokes …

The Mueller matrix is a mathematical description of how light is altered by an optical element
or a sample under study. It describes both intensity (irradiance) and polarization changes …

Optical properties of the biopolymers chitin and chitosan have been considered for
wavelengths between 250 and 750nm. First, by inverting published refractive index data for …

In recent years, the study of polarisation vision in animals has seen numerous
breakthroughs, not just in terms of what is known about the function of this sensory ability …

Nature provides a multitude of nanostructures that have been finely tuned by natural
selection and produce structural colourations that play a role in many biological functions …