Biology of the Integument

Bereiter‐Hahn, Jürgen; Matoltsy, A. Gedeon; Richards, K. Sylvia

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-51593-4

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“…This approach commonly occurs in carbohydrate structures (such as chitin and cellulose) which tend to be secreted along a surface that defines its shape. Although the information available on cuticle formation is spread over diverse organisms, we can build an approximate, representative framework of the processes involved [160][161][162][163][164][165][166]. For instance, the leaf beetle Gastrophysa viridula secretes a chitin surface like its fellow arthropods, the butterflies; unlike them however, it forms the cuticle above tissue rather than on individual cells, and yet it also deposits in layers, each surface supporting the last [160] (figure 12).…”

Section: Biological Processesmentioning

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Biological growth and synthetic fabrication of structurally colored materials

McDougal

Miller

Singh

et al. 2019

J. Opt.

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Nature’s light manipulation strategies—in particular those at the origin of bright iridescent colors—have fascinated humans for centuries. In recent decades, insights into the fundamental concepts and physics underlying biological light-matter interactions have enabled a cascade of attempts to copy nature’s optical strategies in synthetic structurally colored materials. However, despite rapid advances in bioinspired materials that emulate and exceed nature’s light manipulation abilities, we tend to create these materials via methods that have little in common with the processes used by biology. In this review, we compare the processes that enable the formation of biological photonic structures with the procedures employed by scientists and engineers to fabricate biologically inspired photonic materials. This comparison allows us to reflect upon the broader strategies employed in synthetic processes and to identify biological strategies which, if incorporated into the human palette of fabrication approaches, could significantly advance our abilities to control material structure in three dimensions across all relevant length scales.

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