Block copolymer self-assembly for nanophotonics

M Stefik, S Guldin, S Vignolini, U Wiesner… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to control and modulate the interaction of light with matter is crucial to achieve
desired optical properties including reflection, transmission, and selective polarization …

Optical properties of gyroid structured materials: from photonic crystals to metamaterials

JA Dolan, BD Wilts, S Vignolini… - Advanced Optical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The gyroid is a continuous and triply periodic cubic morphology which possesses a constant
mean curvature surface across a range of volumetric fill fractions. Found in a variety of …

Chiral metamaterials: enhancement and control of optical activity and circular dichroism

SS Oh, O Hess - Nano Convergence, 2015 - Springer
The control of the optical activity and ellipticity of a medium has drawn considerable
attention due to the recent developments in metamaterial design techniques and a deeper …

Block copolymer directed metamaterials and metasurfaces for novel optical devices

A Alvarez‐Fernandez, C Cummins… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Optical metamaterials are artificially engineered architectures that exhibit desired optical
properties not found in nature. Bespoke design requires the ability to define shape, size …

Triple-helical nanowires by tomographic rotatory growth for chiral photonics

M Esposito, V Tasco, F Todisco, M Cuscunà… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Three dimensional helical chiral metamaterials resulted in effective manipulation of
circularly polarized light in the visible infrared for advanced nanophotonics. Their …

Biopolymer photonics: From nature to nanotechnology

VV Vogler‐Neuling, M Saba, I Gunkel… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biopolymers offer vast potential for renewable and sustainable devices. While nature
mastered the use of biopolymers to create highly complex 3D structures and optimized their …

Detection of heavy metals using one-dimensional gyroidal photonic crystals for effective water treatment

TA Taha, A Mehaney, HA Elsayed - Materials chemistry and physics, 2022 - Elsevier
In the past century, industrial and technological improvements lead to a significant increase
in water contamination with aqueous solutions of heavy metals ions. In this regard, the …

Optical functional materials inspired by biology

L Wu, J He, W Shang, T Deng, J Gu… - Advanced Optical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The natural world exhibits numerous examples of efficient optical designs with novel
hierarchical microstructures and specialized functionality after millions of years of evolution …

On the origin of chirality in nanoplasmonic gyroid metamaterials.

SS Oh, A Demetriadou, S Wuestner… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2012 - europepmc.org
Metallic single gyroids, a new class of self-assembled nanoplasmonic metamaterials, are
analyzed on the basis of a tri-helical metamaterial model. The physical mechanisms …

[PDF][PDF] Tunable 3D extended self‐assembled gold metamaterials with enhanced light transmission

S Salvatore, A Demetriadou, S Vignolini, SS Oh… - Advanced …, 2013 - cdn.unifr.ch
Exploiting self-organised colloids [1, 2] and monolayers [3] is a valuable approach to
obtaining features at the sub-micrometer scale, but this approach is limited in the achievable …