Natural photonics for industrial inspiration

Parker, Andrew R.

doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0016

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“…33 Parker also presented a review on Natural photonics for industrial inspiration. 34 That such biomimetic interfaces can be of gain for high-performance optics in the deep-UV light range has also been shown by Lohmueller et al 35 Balci et al demonstrated the catalytic coating of virus particles with zinc oxide utilizing a rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus. These electroless deposited materials show cathodoluminescence.…”

Section: Bio-insipred and Bio-templated Oxide Nanoarraysmentioning

confidence: 89%

Nanolithography for oxide nanoarrays and their application in medical devices

Lüttge

2010

Oxide-Based Materials and Devices

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Using lithographic patterning techniques, normally we aim for the integration of structural elements into a more complex apparatus, which can be at various length scales, for example hand-held equipment. Nanoscale fabricated pillars, holes or wires have shown unique properties already and ordering these in specific arrangements results in novel phenomena normally not present in natural occuring materials. Such materials are called nanoarrays. Engineered nanoarrays belong therefore to the class of metamaterials. One example of a metamaterial is a material with a negative refractive index created by design of artificial structure. These exciting material properties bring about also new opportunities for applications. A functional device or system demanding some level of ordering in a material also requires a carefully designed manufacturing process. Here, we will present an overview of nanolithographic techniques for oxide nanoarrays. Bio-inspired templated nanoarrays will be described in perspective to other nanolithography techniques. These nanostructures can deliver new functionality, too. Moreover, (nano)structured materials can deliver specific functionality at the interface with biological material. Developing these materials, subsequently, we can look for medical applications where the properties of oxide nanoarrays are explored. Photonic crystals, for example, can be applied in medical diagnostic devices. In this paper, therefore oxide nanoarrays are introduced and the emerging technology for modification and tuning of medical device performance utilizing oxide nanoarrays is discussed.

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Section: Bio-insipred and Bio-templated Oxide Nanoarraysmentioning

confidence: 89%

Nanolithography for oxide nanoarrays and their application in medical devices

Lüttge

2010

Oxide-Based Materials and Devices

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“…[64] Prominent examples include moisture-harvesting strategy ( Figure 3A-C), photonics biodiversity, and biological attachment devices. [65] The NHM and Smithsonian contain the most diverse and abundant collections of preserved and fossilized organisms and artifacts. Together they amount to 200 million specimens made up of entire organisms, DNA samples, zoological objects (extended phenotypes such as nests and shells), seeds and fruits, and fossilized organisms, representing millions of years of evolutionary time, from all the major biomes and the majority of subdivided habitats.…”

Section: The Practice Of Biomimetics With the Museum Collectionsmentioning

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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

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Living organisms are the ultimate survivalists, having evolved phenotypes with unprecedented adaptability, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and versatility compared to human technology. To harness these properties, functional descriptions and design principles from all sources of biodiversity information must be collated − including the hundreds of thousands of possible survival features manifest in natural history museum collections, which represent 12% of total global biodiversity. This requires a consortium of expert biologists from a range of disciplines to convert the observations, data, and hypotheses into the language of engineering. We hope to unite multidisciplinary biologists and natural history museum scientists to maximize the coverage of observations, descriptions, and hypotheses relating to adaptation and function across biodiversity, to make it technologically useful. This is to be achieved by developments in meta‐ taxonomic classification, phylogenetics, systematics, biological materials research, structure and morphological characterizations, and ecological data gathering from the collections − the aim being to identify and catalogue features essential for good biomimetic design.

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“…Multiscale photonic structures ranging from nanometer to millimeter that are found on wing scales, imparts brilliant blue iridescent colors for Morpho butterfly (found in Central and South America). [160][161][162] The multiscale structures in addition to the brilliant iridescent color imparts superhydrophobicity and acute chemical sensing ability to the butterfly wings. The scales present in wings can be categorized into two types 163 : the structural color is due to ground scales and superhydrophobicity 167 and self-cleaning properties are due to cover scales.…”

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A review on ‘self-cleaning and multifunctional materials’

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This review article exemplifies the importance of self-cleaning materials and coatings. Selfcleaning coatings are becoming an integral part of our daily life because of their utility in various applications such as windows, solar panels, cements, paints, etc. In this review, various categories of materials for the fabrication of hydrophilic, hydrophobic, oleophobic, amphiphobic and multifunctional coatings and their synthesis routes have been discussed. Furthermore, different natural organisms exhibiting superhydrophobic behaviour have been analysed. This review also covers the fundamentals of self-cleaning attributes such as water contact angle, surface energy, contact angle hysteresis, etc. Fig. 1 Pictures of water droplets on Lotus (left) and Ramee (right) leaf indicating the self-cleaning property inherent in nature. 1 Inset of a: pictures of water droplet on Lotus (left) and Ramee leaf (right) indicating their inherent selfcleaning nature.

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Natural photonics for industrial inspiration

Cited by 50 publications

References 48 publications

Nanolithography for oxide nanoarrays and their application in medical devices

Nanolithography for oxide nanoarrays and their application in medical devices

Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

A review on ‘self-cleaning and multifunctional materials’

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