Plant-inspired materials and surfaces

Author(s): Aristotelis Kamtsikakis; Christoph Weder
Published in: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Issue 43, 3, 2022, Page(s) 2100654, ISSN 1521-3927
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202100654

Polymerization‐Induced Wrinkled Surfaces with Controlled Topography as Slippery Surfaces for Colorado Potato Beetles

Author(s): Johannes B. Bergmann, Dafni Moatsou, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Marc Thielen, Thomas Speck, Bodo D. Wilts, Ullrich Steiner
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 7/12, 2020, Page(s) 2000129, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202000129

Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies

Author(s): Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Lukas Schertel; Laura Catòn; Thomas G. Parton; Karin H. Müller; Heather F. Greer; Colin J. Ingham; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 19, 190, 2022, Page(s) 20220181, ISSN 1742-5662
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0181

Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles

Author(s): Thomas G. Parton; Richard M. Parker; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Aurimas Narkevicius; Johannes S. Haataja; Bruno Frka-Petesic; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 2657, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30226-6

The cellular and genetic basis of structural colour in plants

Author(s): Chiara A. Airoldi, Jordan Ferria, Beverley J Glover
Published in: Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Issue 47, 2019, Page(s) 81-87, ISSN 1369-5266
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2018.10.002

Insect Antiadhesive Surfaces Using Electrosprayed Wrinkled Ethyl Cellulose Particles.

Author(s): Johannes B. Bergmann; Alexandre Redondo; Ullrich Steiner; Bodo D. Wilts; Dafni Moatsou
Published in: ACS Applied Materials Interfaces, Issue 13, 7, 2021, Page(s) 9232-9238, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c21602

Bio-inspired materials to control and minimise insect attachment

Author(s): Ullrich Steiner; Dafni Moatsou; Bodo Wilts; Johannes Bergmann
Published in: Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Issue 17, 5, 2022, Page(s) 051001, ISSN 1748-3182
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac91b9

Polarity in cuticular ridge development and insect attachment on leaf surfaces of Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Araceae)

Author(s): Venkata A. Surapaneni; Tobias Aust; Thomas Speck; Marc Thielen
Published in: Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 1326-1338, ISSN 2190-4286
Publisher: Beilstein-Institut Zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften
DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.12.98

Measurements of periodically perturbed dewetting force fields and their consequences on the symmetry of the resulting patterns

Author(s): Konstantinos Roumpos; Sarah Fontaine; Thomas Pfohl; Oswald Prucker; Jürgen Rühe; Günter Reiter
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, 2021, Page(s) 13149, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92544-x

Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments

Author(s): Zhen Wang; Chun Lam Clement Chan; Johannes S. Haataja; Lukas Schertel; Ruiting Li; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Oren A. Scherman; Richard M. Parker; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, Issue 61, 34, 2022, Page(s) e202206562, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202206562

Rheological Properties of Blends of Isotactic Polystyrene–Isotactic Poly( para -methylstyrene) Films Derived from a Comparative Dewetting Study

Author(s): Austine A. Mulama, Konstantinos Roumpos, L. Pradipkanti, Andrew O. Oduor, Günter Reiter
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 53/20, 2020, Page(s) 9122-9130, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01469

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

Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural colour in the fruits of <i>Lantana strigocamara</i> (syn. <i>L. camara</i> hybrid cultivar)

Author(s): Miranda A. Sinnott‐Armstrong; Yu Ogawa; Gea Theodora van de Kerkhof; Silvia Vignolini; Stacey D. Smith
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 235, 3, 2022, Page(s) 898-906, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.18262

Self-Reporting Fiber-Reinforced Composites That Mimic the Ability of Biological Materials to Sense and Report Damage

Author(s): Omar Rifaie-Graham, Edward A. Apebende, Livia K. Bast, Nico Bruns
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 30/19, 2018, Page(s) 1705483, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705483

Effects of Silk Degumming Process on Physicochemical, Tensile, and Optical Properties of Regenerated Silk Fibroin

Author(s): Kira Nultsch, Livia K. Bast, Muriel Näf, Salima El Yakhlifi, Nico Bruns, Oliver Germershaus
Published in: Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, Issue 303/12, 2018, Page(s) 1800408, ISSN 1438-7492
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/mame.201800408

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, 2019, Page(s) 1905151, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201905151

Replicating the complexity of natural surfaces: technique validation and applications for biomimetics, ecology and evolution

Author(s): Charchit Kumar, Alejandro Palacios, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Georg Bold, Marc Thielen, Erik Licht, Timothy E. Higham, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Issue 377/2138, 2018, Page(s) 20180265, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0265

Dewetting Rheology for Determining Viscoelastic Properties of Nonequilibrated Thin Polymer Films

Author(s): Austine A. Mulama, Sivasurender Chandran, Konstantinos Roumpos, Andrew O. Oduor, Günter Reiter
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 52/20, 2019, Page(s) 7894-7903, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01384

Rendering Polyurethane Hydrophilic for Efficient Cellulose Reinforcement in Melt-Spun Nanocomposite Fibers

Author(s): Alexandre Redondo, Livia K. Bast, Kenza Djeghdi, Martino Airoldi, Daseul Jang, LaShanda T. J. Korley, Ullrich Steiner, Nico Bruns, Ilja Gunkel
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 10, 9, 2023, Page(s) 220197, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202201979

Cellulose nanofiber nanocomposite pervaporation membranes for ethanol recovery

Author(s): Aristotelis Kamtsikakis; Sara McBride; Justin Orazio Zoppe; Christoph Weder
Published in: ACS Applied Nano Materials, Issue 4, 1, 2021, Page(s) 568-579, ISSN 2574-0970
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.0c02881

3D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropyl Cellulose—toward Tunable and Sustainable Volumetric Photonic Structures

Author(s): Chun Lam Clement Chan; Iek Man Lei; Gea T. van de Kerkhof; Richard M. Parker; Kieran D. Richards; Rachel C. Evans; Yan Yan Shery Huang; Silvia Vignolini
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 32, 15, 2022, Page(s) 2108566, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202108566

Silk Sericin-Polylactide Protein–Polymer Conjugates as Biodegradable Amphiphilic Materials and Their Application in Drug Release Systems

Author(s): Kanittha Boonpavanitchakul, Livia K. Bast, Nico Bruns, Rathanawan Magaraphan
Published in: Bioconjugate Chemistry, Issue 31/10, 2020, Page(s) 2312-2324, ISSN 1043-1802
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00399

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

Infiltration of Proteins in Cholesteric Cellulose Structures.

Author(s): Livia K. Bast; Konrad W. Klockars; Luiz G. Greca; Orlando J. Rojas; Orlando J. Rojas; Blaise L. Tardy; Nico Bruns; Nico Bruns
Published in: Biomacromolecules, Issue 22, 5, 2021, Page(s) 2067-2080, ISSN 1525-7797
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00183

Spatio-temporal development of cuticular ridges on leaf surfaces of Hevea brasiliensis alters insect attachment

Author(s): Venkata A. Surapaneni, Georg Bold, Thomas Speck, Marc Thielen
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 7/11, 2020, Page(s) 201319, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201319

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

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

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