Silk materials–a road to sustainable high technology

H Tao, DL Kaplan, FG Omenetto - Advanced materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review addresses the use of silk protein as a sustainable material in optics and
photonics, electronics and optoelectronic applications. These options represent additional …

Optics of photonic quasicrystals

ZV Vardeny, A Nahata, A Agrawal - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
The physics of periodic systems are of fundamental importance and result in various
phenomena that govern wave transport and interference. However, deviations from …

Silk‐based conformal, adhesive, edible food sensors

H Tao, MA Brenckle, M Yang, J Zhang, M Liu… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An array of passive metamaterial antennas fabricated on all protein‐based silk substrates
were conformally transferred and adhered to the surface of an apple. This process allows …

Integrated separation of blood plasma from whole blood for microfluidic paper-based analytical devices

X Yang, O Forouzan, TP Brown, SS Shevkoplyas - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Many diagnostic tests in a conventional clinical laboratory are performed on blood plasma
because changes in its composition often reflect the current status of pathological processes …

Deterministic aperiodic nanostructures for photonics and plasmonics applications

L Dal Negro, SV Boriskina - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on the optical properties and device applications of deterministic
aperiodic media generated by mathematical rules with spectral features that interpolate in a …

A review on microfluidic paper-based analytical devices for glucose detection

S Liu, W Su, X Ding - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
Glucose, as an essential substance directly involved in metabolic processes, is closely
related to the occurrence of various diseases such as glucose metabolism disorders and …

Topological engineering of interfacial optical Tamm states for highly sensitive near-singular-phase optical detection

Y Tsurimaki, JK Tong, VN Boriskin, A Semenov… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We developed planar multilayered photonic–plasmonic structures, which support
topologically protected optical states on the interface between metal and dielectric materials …

Quasicrystalline materials from non-atom building blocks

Y Nagaoka, J Schneider, H Zhu, O Chen - Matter, 2023 - cell.com
The discovery of quasicrystals (awarded with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) generated
a revolutionary impact on crystallography, and hence a plethora of structural topics across a …

Plasmonic metasurfaces for specific SERS detection of Shiga toxins

M Rippa, D Sagnelli, A Vestri… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The interest in the development of nanoscale plasmonic technologies has dramatically
increased in recent years. The photonic properties of plasmonic nanopatterns can be …

Discovery of the surface polarity gradient on iridescent Morpho butterfly scales reveals a mechanism of their selective vapor response

RA Potyrailo, TA Starkey, P Vukusic… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
For almost a century, the iridescence of tropical Morpho butterfly scales has been known to
originate from 3D vertical ridge structures of stacked periodic layers of cuticle separated by …