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BAUERNFEIND Viola

Soft Matter Physics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	A325
Phone:	+41 26 300 9272
Email:	viola.bauernfeind@unifr.ch

Projects team

Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Discovering hidden correlations in disordered photonic materials

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Photonic structures in nature

Diverse photonic nanostructures in nature feature a wealth of optical properties.

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3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating

Investigating the interplay between a 3D linear photonic crystal and a nonlinear optical material

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Publications

Robust Full‐Spectral Color Tuning of Photonic Colloids
Dodero Andrea, Djeghdi Kenza, Bauernfeind Viola, Airoldi Martino, Wilts Bodo D., Weder Christoph, Steiner Ullrich, Gunkel Ilja
Small (2022)

Photonic Amorphous I‐WP‐Like Networks Create Angle‐Independent Colors in Sternotomis virescens Longhorn Beetles
Bauernfeind Viola, Djeghdi Kenza, Gunkel Ilja, Steiner Ullrich, Wilts Bodo D.
Advanced Functional Materials (2023)

Patchy particle insights into self-assembly of transparent, graded index squid lenses
Altan Irem, Bauernfeind Viola, Sweeney Alison M.
Soft Matter (2023)

Elastic microphase separation produces robust bicontinuous materials
Fernández-Rico Carla, Schreiber Sanjay, Oudich Hamza, Lorenz Charlotta, Sicher Alba, Sai Tianqi, Bauernfeind Viola, Heyden Stefanie, Carrara Pietro, Lorenzis Laura De, Style Robert W., Dufresne Eric R.
Nature Materials (2023)

Triarylmethane Mechanophores Enable Full-Visible Spectrum Mechanochromism
Hemmer James R., Bauernfeind Viola, Rader Chris, Petroselli Manuel, Weder Christoph, Berrocal José Augusto
Macromolecules (2023)

Thin film structural color is widespread in slime molds (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa)
Bauernfeind Viola, Ronikier Anna, Ronikier Michał, Kozlowski Gregor, Steiner Ullrich, Wilts Bodo D.
Optics Express (2024)

Anoplophora graafi Longhorn Beetle Coloration is due to Disordered Diamond-like Packed Spheres
Djeghdi Kenza, Schumacher Cedric, Bauernfeind Viola, Gunkel Ilja, Wilts Bodo, Steiner Ullrich
Soft Matter (2024)

Not only a matter of disorder in I-WP minimal surface-based photonic networks: Diffusive structural color in Sternotomis amabilis longhorn beetles
Bauernfeind Viola, Saranathan Vinodkumar, Djeghdi Kenza, Longo Elena, Flenner Silja, Greving Imke, Steiner Ullrich, Wilts Bodo D.
Materials Today Advances (2024)

BAUERNFEIND Viola

Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Photonic structures in nature

3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating