The rich structures and hierarchical organizations in nature provide many sources of
inspiration for advanced material designs. We wish to recapitulate properties such as high …

Light guiding and manipulation in photonics have become ubiquitous in events ranging from
everyday communications to complex robotics and nanomedicine. The speed and sensitivity …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

Animal silks, consisting of pure protein components, offer an extraordinary combination of
strength, elongation, and toughness, exceeding most engineered materials. The secret to …

Structural color materials have existed in nature for millions of years. Natural polymers
constitute biological structural colors and provide an excellent resource for fabricating …

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 …

Patterning of photonic crystals to generate rationally designed color‐responsive materials
has drawn considerable interest because of promising applications in optical storage …

The potential applications in disparate fields led to a rapid evolution of luminescence
thermometry. In particular, luminescent thermometry based on trivalent lanthanide ions …

Natural systems display sophisticated control of light-matter interactions at multiple length
scales for light harvesting, manipulation, and management, through elaborate photonic …

The experimental search for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is an extremely
challenging task due to the vast search space comprising the materials, device structures …