Publications Peer reviewed articles (45) 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 Thesis and dissertations (1) Complex photonics in nature: from order to disorder Author(s): Olimpia Onelli Published in: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.17863/CAM.20829 Book chapters (2) 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 Non-peer reviewed articles (2) 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 Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available