Calcifying marine phytoplankton—coccolithophores—are some of the most successful yet
enigmatic organisms in the ocean and are at risk from global change. To better understand …

Biomimetics is the extraction of good design from nature. One approach to optical
biomimetics focuses on the use of conventional engineering methods to make direct …

Since material properties are structure-dependent, new and interesting properties are
expected from unusual or complex structures. Biomorphic mineralization is a technique that …

Natural creatures have evolved elaborate photonic nanostructures on multiple scales and
dimensions in a hierarchical, organized way to realize controllable absorption, reflection, or …

Light and its interaction with microalgae are essential concerns in the context of microalgae
studies. The optical properties of microalgae have a great impact on the remote sensing …

This review focuses on the peculiarities of quasiperiodic order for the properties of photonic
and phononic (sonic) heterostructures. The most beneficial feature of quasiperiodicity is that …

Materials science will play a key role in the further development of emerging solutions for the
increasing problems of energy and environment. Materials found in nature have many …

The evolutionary causes for generation of nano and microstructured silica by photosynthetic
algae are not yet deciphered. Diatoms are single photosynthetic algal cells populating the …

Strategic advances in the single‐cell nanocoating of mammalian cells have noticeably been
made during the last decade, and many potential applications have been demonstrated …

Coccolithophores are major contributors to global marine planktonic calcification, and in
nature coccolithophores are invariably calcified through almost all of their life cycle. The …