New insights and perspectives into biological materials for flexible electronics

L Wang, D Chen, K Jiang, G Shen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological materials have robust hierarchical structures capable of specialized functions and
the incorporation of natural biologically active components, which have been finely tuned …

Biopolymeric photonic structures: design, fabrication, and emerging applications

R **ong, J Luan, S Kang, C Ye… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological photonic structures can precisely control light propagation, scattering, and
emission via hierarchical structures and diverse chemistry, enabling biophotonic …

A novel ultra‐wideband electromagnetic‐wave‐absorbing metastructure inspired by bionic gyroid structures

Q An, D Li, W Liao, T Liu, D Joralmon, X Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional honeycomb‐like structural electromagnetic (EM)‐wave‐absorbing materials
have been widely used in various equipment as multifunctional materials. However, current …

Machine learning-enabled constrained multi-objective design of architected materials

B Peng, Y Wei, Y Qin, J Dai, Y Li, A Liu, Y Tian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Architected materials that consist of multiple subelements arranged in particular orders can
demonstrate a much broader range of properties than their constituent materials. However …

Microarchitected stretching‐dominated mechanical metamaterials with minimal surface topologies

O Al‐Ketan, R Rezgui, R Rowshan… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Historically, the creation of lightweight, yet mechanically robust, materials have been the
most sought‐after engineering pursuit. For that purpose, research efforts are dedicated to …

Light in correlated disordered media

K Vynck, R Pierrat, R Carminati, LS Froufe-Pérez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

Biological material interfaces as inspiration for mechanical and optical material designs

J Ren, Y Wang, Y Yao, Y Wang, X Fei, P Qi… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The extraordinary properties of biological materials often result from their sophisticated
hierarchical structures. Through multilevel and cross-scale structural designs, biological …

Optical properties of gyroid structured materials: from photonic crystals to metamaterials

JA Dolan, BD Wilts, S Vignolini… - Advanced Optical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The gyroid is a continuous and triply periodic cubic morphology which possesses a constant
mean curvature surface across a range of volumetric fill fractions. Found in a variety of …

Interactions between colour-producing mechanisms and their effects on the integumentary colour palette

MD Shawkey, L D'Alba - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal integumentary coloration plays a crucial role in visual communication and
camouflage, and varies extensively among and within species and populations. To …

Biopolymer photonics: From nature to nanotechnology

VV Vogler‐Neuling, M Saba, I Gunkel… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biopolymers offer vast potential for renewable and sustainable devices. While nature
mastered the use of biopolymers to create highly complex 3D structures and optimized their …