As a nanoscale renewable resource derived from lignocellulosic materials, cellulose
nanocrystals (CNCs) have the features of high purity, high crystallinity, high aspect ratio …

Today, cancer disease is a significant reason for the death of many patients. In many cases,
cancer is diagnosed after metastasized during the body. Thus, the earlier detection gives a …

Believing that the detection of hemoglobin possesses a vital role in the discovery of many
diseases, we present in this work a simple method for sensing and detecting hemoglobin …

Environmentally friendly materials are gaining more and more importance day by day.
Structural colored materials without chemical pigments have become popular in this respect …

The structural color is produced by the reflection of light through a periodic dielectric
structure with photonic bandgap. Because of its special visual effects, researchers in many …

For sustainable water desalination, there is a worldwide push towards solar thermal
desalination with the objective to limit the amount of consumed energy in other desalination …

The present work deals with the photonic sensing technology used for biosensing
applications. In this paper we have examined the transmission properties of one …

A novel design of one dimensional annular photonic crystals with a low birefringence
nematic liquid crystal as a defect layer is introduced. The output field of the sensor structure …

In this research, a one-dimensional photonic crystal sensor for detecting soybean biodiesel
is presented theoretically. The proposed sensor is composed of two alternating layers of Si …

The photonic crystal materials are new generation advanced materials with various
application areas. One-dimensional (1-D) photonic crystals are one kind of that can be …