Reeling of recombinant flourescence cocoons through low temperature decompressed cooking

Park, Jong-Hwa; Kim, Sung‐Wan; Jeong, Young‐Hun; Lee, Jongkil; Go, Young-Mi; Lee, Sang-Chan; Choi, Kwang‐Ho; Kim, Seong-Ryul; Goo, Tae-Won

doi:10.7852/jses.2013.51.2.142

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…To confirm the existence of localized modes in silk, we embedded luminescence sources to couple into internal cavities, which can be transferred to far-field radiation patterns near the gain–loss equilibrium. In sericin-removed silk filaments 83 , the 3D volume of nanofibrillar structures was uniformly infiltrated by DCM in dimethyl sulfoxide (low reabsorption and quantum yield of 75%) at a low concentration of 0.5 mg/ml (Supplementary Fig. 8 ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anderson light localization in biological nanostructures of native silk

Choi

Kim

et al. 2018

Nat Commun

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Light in biological media is known as freely diffusing because interference is negligible. Here, we show Anderson light localization in quasi-two-dimensional protein nanostructures produced by silkworms (Bombyx mori). For transmission channels in native silk, the light flux is governed by a few localized modes. Relative spatial fluctuations in transmission quantities are proximal to the Anderson regime. The sizes of passive cavities (smaller than a single fibre) and the statistics of modes (decomposed from excitation at the gain–loss equilibrium) differentiate silk from other diffusive structures sharing microscopic morphological similarity. Because the strong reflectivity from Anderson localization is combined with the high emissivity of the biomolecules in infra-red radiation, silk radiates heat more than it absorbs for passive cooling. This collective evidence explains how a silkworm designs a nanoarchitectured optical window of resonant tunnelling in the physically closed structures, while suppressing most of transmission in the visible spectrum and emitting thermal radiation.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%