Structural colors: from natural to artificial systems

Structural coloration has attracted great interest from scientists and engineers in recent years, owing to fascination with various brilliant examples displayed in nature as well as to promising applications of bio‐inspired functional photonic structures and materials. Much research has been done to...

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Published in:Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology 2016-09, Vol.8 (5), p.758-775
Main Authors: Fu, Yulan, Tippets, Cary A., Donev, Eugenii U., Lopez, Rene
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Biology
Biomimetic Materials
Biosensors
Biotechnology
Birds
Coloration
Coloring Agents
Diagnostic software
Diagnostic systems
Fishes
Insecta
Nanoparticles
Nanoparticles - chemistry
Nanoparticles - ultrastructure
Nanotechnology
Optics and Photonics
Photonics
Physics
Pigmentation
Pigments, Biological - chemistry
Pigments, Biological - physiology
Reptiles
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Summary:Structural coloration has attracted great interest from scientists and engineers in recent years, owing to fascination with various brilliant examples displayed in nature as well as to promising applications of bio‐inspired functional photonic structures and materials. Much research has been done to reveal and emulate the physical mechanisms that underlie the structural colors found in nature. In this article, we review the fundamental physics of many natural structural colors displayed by living organisms as well as their bio‐inspired artificial counterparts, with emphasis on their connections, tunability strategies, and proposed applications, which aim to maximize the technological benefits one could derive from these photonic nanostructures. WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol 2016, 8:758–775. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1396 This article is categorized under: Diagnostic Tools > Biosensing Diagnostic Tools > In Vitro Nanoparticle-Based Sensing Nanotechnology Approaches to Biology > Nanoscale Systems in Biology
ISSN:1939-5116
1939-0041
DOI:10.1002/wnan.1396