Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

By controlling the interaction of biological building blocks at the nanoscale, natural photonic
nanostructures have been optimized to produce intense coloration. Inspired by such …

Throughout the 19th and 20th century, chirality has mostly been associated with chemistry.
However, while chirality can be very useful for understanding molecules, molecules are not …

The natural world is a colorful environment. Stunning displays of coloration have evolved
throughout nature to optimize camouflage, warning, and communication. The resulting …

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 …

Nature has been producing cellulose since long before man walked the surface of the earth.
Millions of years of natural design and testing have resulted in cellulose‐based structures …

Chiro-optical effects offer a wide range of potential applications in nanophotonics, such as
advanced imaging and molecular sensing and separation. Flat single-layer metasurfaces …

The self‐assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is a powerful method for the fabrication of
biosourced photonic films with a chiral optical response. While various techniques have …

Conspectus Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are obtained from the sulfuric acid-catalyzed
hydrolysis of bulk cellulose. The nanocrystals have diameters of∼ 5–15 nm and lengths of∼ …

Photonic crystal (PC)-based inverse opal (IO) arrays are one of the substrates for label-free
sensing mechanism. IO-based materials with their advanced and ordered three-dimensional …