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Disordered wax platelets on Tradescantia pallida leaves create golden shine

Author(s): Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Lukas Schertel, Rebecca Nokjan Poon, Gianni Jacucci, Beverley J. Glover, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Faraday Discussions, Issue 223, 2020, Page(s) 207-215, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00024h

Living light : optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures

Author(s): Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Interface Focus, Issue 9/1, 2019, Page(s) 20180071, ISSN 2042-8898
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2018.0071

Scalable electrochromic nanopixels using plasmonics

Author(s): Jialong Peng, Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Qianqi Lin, Sean Cormier, Hsin-Ling Liang, Michael F. L. De Volder, Silvia Vignolini, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 5/5, 2019, Page(s) eaaw2205, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw2205

Light Management with Natural Materials: From Whiteness to Transparency

Author(s): Gianni Jacucci, Lukas Schertel, Yating Zhang, Han Yang, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 33/28, 2021, Page(s) 2001215, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202001215

Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies

Author(s): Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 17/166, 2020, Page(s) 20200196, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0196

Using structural colour to track length scale of cell‐wall layers in developing Pollia japonica fruits

Author(s): Rox Middleton, Edwige Moyroud, Paula J. Rudall, Christina J. Prychid, Maria Conejero, Beverley J. Glover, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 230/6, 2021, Page(s) 2327-2336, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17346

Viburnum tinus Fruits Use Lipids to Produce Metallic Blue Structural Color

Author(s): Rox Middleton, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong, Yu Ogawa, Gianni Jacucci, Edwige Moyroud, Paula J. Rudall, Chrissie Prychid, Maria Conejero, Beverley J. Glover, Michael J. Donoghue, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 30/19, 2020, Page(s) 3804-3810.e2, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.005

Hyperspectral Imaging of Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films: Structure of Local Defects and Implications for Self-Assembly Pathways

Author(s): Bonan Zhu, Villads E. Johansen, Gen Kamita, Giulia Guidetti, Mélanie M. Bay, Thomas G. Parton, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 14/11, 2020, Page(s) 15361-15373, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c05785

Anomalous-Diffusion-Assisted Brightness in White Cellulose Nanofibril Membranes

Author(s): Matti S. Toivonen, Olimpia D. Onelli, Gianni Jacucci, Ville Lovikka, Orlando J. Rojas, Olli Ikkala, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 30/16, 2018, Page(s) 1704050, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704050

Photonic Resins: Designing Optical Appearance via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

Author(s): Dong-Po Song, Gianni Jacucci, Feyza Dundar, Aditi Naik, Hua-Feng Fei, Silvia Vignolini, James J. Watkins
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 51/6, 2018, Page(s) 2395-2400, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02288

Bio-inspired Highly Scattering Networks via Polymer Phase Separation

Author(s): Julia Syurik, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Hendrik Hölscher, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, Page(s) 1706901, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201706901

Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies

Author(s): Villads Egede Johansen, Laura Catón, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Els Oosterink, Bodo D. Wilts, Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, Michael Mario Sherlock, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/11, 2018, Page(s) 2652-2657, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716214115

Block Copolymer Micelles for Photonic Fluids and Crystals

Author(s): Mikko Poutanen, Giulia Guidetti, Tina I. Gröschel, Oleg V. Borisov, Silvia Vignolini, Olli Ikkala, Andre H. Gröschel
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 12/4, 2018, Page(s) 3149-3158, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b09070

New horizons for cellulose nanotechnology

Author(s): S. J. Eichhorn, S. S. Rahatekar, S. Vignolini, A. H. Windle
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 376/2112, 2017, Page(s) 20170200, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0200

Controlling the Photonic Properties of Cholesteric Cellulose Nanocrystal Films with Magnets

Author(s): Bruno Frka-Petesic, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 29/32, 2017, Page(s) 1701469, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201701469

Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales

Author(s): Bodo D. Wilts, Xiaoyuan Sheng, Mirko Holler, Ana Diaz, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Jörg Raabe, Robert Hoppe, Shu-Hao Liu, Richard Langford, Olimpia D. Onelli, Duyu Chen, Salvatore Torquato, Ullrich Steiner, Christian G. Schroer, Silvia Vignolini, Alessandro Sepe
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2017, Page(s) 1702057, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201702057

The Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals: Hierarchical Design of Visual Appearance

Author(s): Richard M. Parker, Giulia Guidetti, Cyan A. Williams, Tianheng Zhao, Aurimas Narkevicius, Silvia Vignolini, Bruno Frka-Petesic
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2017, Page(s) 1704477, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704477

Disorder in convergent floral nanostructures enhances signalling to bees

Author(s): Edwige Moyroud, Tobias Wenzel, Rox Middleton, Paula J. Rudall, Hannah Banks, Alison Reed, Greg Mellers, Patrick Killoran, M. Murphy Westwood, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini, Beverley J. Glover
Published in: Nature, Issue 550/7677, 2017, Page(s) 469-474, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature24285

Scalable and controlled self-assembly of aluminum-based random plasmonic metasurfaces

Author(s): Radwanul Hasan Siddique, Jan Mertens, Hendrik Hölscher, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 6/7, 2017, Page(s) e17015, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2017.15

Bioinspiration Across All Length Scales of Materials

Author(s): Silvia Vignolini, Nico Bruns
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 30/19, 2018, Page(s) 1801687, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201801687

Ultrastructure and optics of the prism-like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)

Author(s): Bodo D. Wilts, Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, Tom Gregory, Yu Ogawa, Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 219/3, 2018, Page(s) 1124-1133, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15229

Unexpected stability of aqueous dispersions of raspberry-like colloids

Author(s): Yang Lan, Alessio Caciagli, Giulia Guidetti, Ziyi Yu, Ji Liu, Villads E. Johansen, Marlous Kamp, Chris Abell, Silvia Vignolini, Oren A. Scherman, Erika Eiser
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05560-3

Roll-to-roll fabrication of touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates

Author(s): Hsin-Ling Liang, Mélanie M. Bay, Roberto Vadrucci, Charles H. Barty-King, Jialong Peng, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Michael F. L. De Volder, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07048-6

Printing of Responsive Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Microfilm Arrays

Author(s): Tianheng H. Zhao, Richard M. Parker, Cyan A. Williams, Kevin T. P. Lim, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, Page(s) 1804531, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201804531

Shape Memory Cellulose-Based Photonic Reflectors

Author(s): André Espinha, Giulia Guidetti, María C. Serrano, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Ahu Gümrah Dumanli, Wadood Y. Hamad, Álvaro Blanco, Cefe López, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 8/46, 2016, Page(s) 31935-31940, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10611

Flexible Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

Author(s): Giulia Guidetti, Siham Atifi, Silvia Vignolini, Wadood Y. Hamad
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 28/45, 2016, Page(s) 10042-10047, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603386

Biocompatible and Sustainable Optical Strain Sensors for Large-Area Applications

Author(s): Gen Kamita, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Antoine Allard, Marielle Dargaud, Katie King, Ahu Gumrah Dumanli, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, 2016, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600451

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals in a Confined Geometry

Author(s): Richard M. Parker, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Gioele Consani, Chris Abell, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 10/9, 2016, Page(s) 8443-8449, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03355

Structural Color in Marine Algae

Author(s): Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Juliet Brodie, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 5/5, 2017, Page(s) 1600646, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley Online
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201600646

Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films

Author(s): B. D. Wilts, A. G. Dumanli, R. Middleton, P. Vukusic, S. Vignolini
Published in: APL Photonics, Issue 2/4, 2017, Page(s) 040801, ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4978387

Development of structural colour in leaf beetles

Author(s): Olimpia D. Onelli, Thomas van de Kamp, Jeremy N. Skepper, Janet Powell, Tomy dos Santos Rolo, Tilo Baumbach, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 7/1, 2017, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01496-8

Disordered Cellulose-Based Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Scattering

Author(s): Soraya Caixeiro, Matilda Peruzzo, Olimpia D. Onelli, Silvia Vignolini, Riccardo Sapienza
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 9/9, 2017, Page(s) 7885-7890, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15986

Retrieving the Coassembly Pathway of Composite Cellulose Nanocrystal Photonic Films from their Angular Optical Response

Author(s): Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Joel A. Kelly, Gianni Jacucci, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Nathan P. Crossette, Wadood Y. Hamad, Mark J. MacLachlan, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 32/19, 2020, Page(s) 1906889, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201906889

Hereditary Character of Photonics Structure in Pachyrhynchus sarcitis Weevils: Color Changes via One Generation Hybridization

Author(s): Yin Chang, Yu Ogawa, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Hui‐Yun Tseng, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, Page(s) 2000432, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202000432

Plant-Inspired Polyaleuritate–Nanocellulose Composite Photonic Films

Author(s): José A. Heredia-Guerrero, Cyan A. Williams, Giulia Guidetti, Pietro Cataldi, Luca Ceseracciu, Doriana Debellis, Athanassia Athanassiou, Susana Guzman-Puyol, Wadood Y. Hamad, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Issue 2/4, 2020, Page(s) 1528-1534, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.9b01205

Role of Anisotropy and Refractive Index in Scattering and Whiteness Optimization

Author(s): Gianni Jacucci, Jacopo Bertolotti, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Optical Materials, Issue 7/23, 2019, Page(s) 1900980, ISSN 2195-1071
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201900980

Visual Appearance of Chiral Nematic Cellulose‐Based Photonic Films: Angular and Polarization Independent Color Response with a Twist

Author(s): Chun Lam Clement Chan, Mélanie M. Bay, Gianni Jacucci, Roberto Vadrucci, Cyan A. Williams, Gea T. de Kerkhof, Richard M. Parker, Kevin Vynck, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 31/52, 2019, Page(s) 1905151, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201905151

Bionic 3D printed corals

Author(s): Daniel Wangpraseurt, Shangting You, Farooq Azam, Gianni Jacucci, Olga Gaidarenko, Mark Hildebrand, Michael Kühl, Alison G. Smith, Matthew P. Davey, Alyssa Smith, Dimitri D. Deheyn, Shaochen Chen, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15486-4

Cellulose Nanocrystal-Templated Tin Dioxide Thin Films for Gas Sensing

Author(s): Alesja Ivanova, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Andrej Paul, Thorsten Wagner, Askhat N. Jumabekov, Yury Vilk, Johannes Weber, Jörn Schmedt auf der Günne, Silvia Vignolini, Michael Tiemann, Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing, Thomas Bein
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Issue 12/11, 2020, Page(s) 12639-12647, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b11891

Controlling the Self-Assembly Behavior of Aqueous Chitin Nanocrystal Suspensions

Author(s): Aurimas Narkevicius, Lisa M. Steiner, Richard M. Parker, Yu Ogawa, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Biomacromolecules, Issue 20/7, 2019, Page(s) 2830-2838, ISSN 1525-7797
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.9b00589

Coherent backscattering of light by an anisotropic biological network

Author(s): Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Antonio De Luca, Jacopo Bertolotti, Riccardo Sapienza, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Interface Focus, Issue 9/1, 2018, Page(s) 20180050, ISSN 2042-8898
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2018.0050

Structural colours in the frond of Microsorum thailandicum

Author(s): Lisa Maria Steiner, Yu Ogawa, Villads Egede Johansen, Clive R. Lundquist, Heather Whitney, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Interface Focus, Issue 9/1, 2018, Page(s) 20180055, ISSN 2042-8898
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2018.0055

Angular optical response of cellulose nanocrystal films explained by the distortion of the arrested suspension upon drying

Author(s): Bruno Frka-Petesic, Gen Kamita, Giulia Guidetti, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 3/4, 2019, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.3.045601

Hierarchical Photonic Pigments via the Confined Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers

Author(s): Dong-Po Song, Tianheng H. Zhao, Giulia Guidetti, Silvia Vignolini, Richard M. Parker
Published in: ACS Nano, 2019, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07845

Angular‐Independent Photonic Pigments via the Controlled Micellization of Amphiphilic Bottlebrush Block Copolymers

Author(s): Tianheng H. Zhao, Gianni Jacucci, Xi Chen, Dong‐Po Song, Silvia Vignolini, Richard M. Parker
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 32/47, 2020, Page(s) 2002681, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002681

Complex photonics in nature: from order to disorder

Author(s): Olimpia Onelli
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.17863/CAM.20829

Photonics in Nature: From Order to Disorder

Author(s): Villads Egede Johansen, Olimpia Domitilla Onelli, Lisa Maria Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: 2018, Page(s) 53-89
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74144-4_3

Bio-Mimetic Structural Colour using Biopolymers.

Author(s): R. Middleton, U. Steiner, S. Vignolini
Published in: Bio-inspired polymers, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78262-413-4
Publisher: RSC Publishing

Living Light 2018: Conference Report

Author(s): Olimpia Onelli, Bodo Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Biomimetics, Issue 3/2, 2018, Page(s) 11, ISSN 2313-7673
Publisher: MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics3020011

So much more than paper

Author(s): Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 13/6, 2019, Page(s) 365-367, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0448-9

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