Structural color materials from natural polymers

Z Zhang, Z Chen, L Shang… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Structural color materials have existed in nature for millions of years. Natural polymers
constitute biological structural colors and provide an excellent resource for fabricating …

[HTML][HTML] Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

[HTML][HTML] Nano-and micropatterning on optical fibers by bottom-up approach: the importance of being ordered

M Pisco, F Galeotti - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The realization of advanced optical fiber probes demands the integration of materials and
structures on optical fibers with micro-and nanoscale definition. Although researchers often …

Fiber Optic Devices for Diagnostics and Therapy in Photomedicine

Y Hu, P Minzioni, J Hui, SH Yun… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic technologies have made enormous impacts on modern medicine, advancing
disease diagnostics and treatments as well as health monitoring. A long‐standing challenge …

Fabrication of biomimetic micropatterned surfaces by sol–gel dewetting

E Colusso, A Martucci, C Neto - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dewetting of thin polymer films has been extensively investigated as a way to generate
patterned surfaces. In this paper, the controlled dewetting of sol–gel thin films induced by …

Modulation instability in one-dimensional bi-periodic optical lattice made of negative index metamaterials waveguide arrays

L Zhang, L Ke, Q Wang - Optik, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dispersion relation and modulation instability (MI) have been studied in
one-dimensional bi-periodic optical lattice of negative index metamaterials waveguide …

Functionalization of titanates–silk nanocomposites via cation exchange for optical applications

E Colusso, D Vitiello, G Perotto… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A simple and efficient method is developed to introduce plasmonic and luminescence
functionalities in titanate nanosheets (TNSs)–silk nanocomposites by direct cation …

Ocular applications of silk-based products

M Santos, S Delisle, A Tweed-Kent - US Patent 11,771,769, 2023 - Google Patents
The embodiments disclosed and embraced by the present invention include silk-based
products useful in the treatment, diagnosis, palliation, and/or amelioration of ocular diseases …

3D-photonic crystals: Opal structures

A Chiappini, C Armellini, L Pasquardini… - Sol-Gel Derived Optical …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the field of Photonics, the development of tailored sub-micrometric periodic structures
strongly affects the light matter interaction, eg ensuring a structural color or controlling …

Estudos de transferência de energia peptídeos-lantanídeos com aplicações em biossensores

LR Lima - 2018 - repositorio.unesp.br
Neste trabalho, o peptídeo antimicrobiano hylina-a1 foi sintetizado e modificado
estrategicamente com a adição de um resíduo de triptofano (W), visando o estudo da …