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Living jewels: iterative evolution of iridescent blue leaves from helicoidal cell walls
Clive R Lundquist, Paula J Rudall, Rahayu S Sukri, María Conejero, Alyssa Smith, Martin Lopez-Garcia, Silvia Vignolini, Faizah Metali, Heather M Whitney
Annals of Botany (2024)

Influence of structural colour on the photoprotective mechanism in the gametophyte phase of the red alga Chondrus crispus
Ariel García Fleitas, Samim Sardar, Margot Minju Arnould-Pétré, Maria Murace, Silvia Vignolini, Juliet Brodie, Guglielmo Lanzani, Cosimo D'Andrea
not found (2024)

Angle-resolved optical spectroscopy of photonic cellulose nanocrystal films reveals the influence of additives on the mechanism of kinetic arrest
Thomas G. Parton, Richard M. Parker, Sonja Osbild, Silvia Vignolini, Bruno Frka-Petesic
Soft Matter (2024)

Light in correlated disordered media
Kevin Vynck, Romain Pierrat, Rémi Carminati, Luis S. Froufe-Pérez, Frank Scheffold, Riccardo Sapienza, Silvia Vignolini, Juan José Sáenz
Reviews of Modern Physics 95 (2023)

Inkjet Printed Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Patterns
Cyan A. Williams, Richard M. Parker, Andrew Kyriacou, Maria Murace, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2023)

Light management by algal aggregates in living photosynthetic hydrogels.
Sing Teng Chua, Alyssa Smith, Swathi Murthy, Maria Murace, Han Yang, Michael Kühl, Pietro Cicuta, Alison G. Smith, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Silvia Vignolini
preprint (2023)

Topological invariance in whiteness optimisation
Johannes S. Haataja, Gianni Jacucci, Thomas G. Parton, Lukas Schertel, Silvia Vignolini
Communications Physics 6 (2023)

Liquid Crystal-Templated Porous Microparticles via Photopolymerization of Temperature-Induced Droplets in a Binary Liquid Mixture
Mehzabin Patel, Alberto Alvarez-Fernandez, Maximiliano Jara Fornerod, Anand N. P. Radhakrishnan, Alaric Taylor, Singg Ten Chua, Silvia Vignolini, Benjamin Schmidt-Hansberg, Alexander Iles, Stefan Guldin
journal-article (2023)

Bioinspired Photonic Materials from Cellulose: Fabrication, Optical Analysis, and Applications
Richard M. Parker, Thomas G. Parton, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Mélanie M. Bay, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Accounts of Materials Research (2023)

Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres
Tali Lemcoff, Lotem Alus, Johannes S. Haataja, Avital Wagner, Gan Zhang, Mariela J. Pavan, Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Silvia Vignolini, Dan Oron, Lukas Schertel, Benjamin A. Palmer
Nature Photonics (2023)

Exploiting the Thermotropic Behavior of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose to Produce Edible Photonic Pigments
Siyi Ming, Xiaotian Zhang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Zhen Wang, Mélanie M. Bay, Richard M. Parker, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Sustainable Systems , 2200469 (2023)

Edible cellulose-based colorimetric timer
Gen Kamita, Silvia Vignolini, Ahu Gümrah Dumanli
Nanoscale Horizons (2023)

Tuning the Color of Photonic Glass Pigments by Thermal Annealing
Zhen Wang, Ruiting Li, Yating Zhang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Johannes S. Haataja, Kui Yu, Richard M. Parker, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials , 2207923 (2022)

Chiral self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals is driven by crystallite bundles
Thomas G. Parton, Richard M. Parker, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Aurimas Narkevicius, Johannes S. Haataja, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Nature Communications 13 (2022)

Cellulose photonic pigments
Richard M. Parker, Tianheng H. Zhao, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
journal-article (2022)

Multiple origins of lipid‐based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit colors in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
Miranda A. Sinnott‐Armstrong, Rox Middleton, Yu Ogawa, Gianni Jacucci, Edwige Moyroud, Beverley J. Glover, Paula J. Rudall, Silvia Vignolini, Michael J. Donoghue
New Phytologist (2022)

Corrigendum
Bodo D. Wilts, Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, Tom Gregory, Yu Ogawa, Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2022)

Structurally Colored Radiative Cooling Cellulosic Films
Wenkai Zhu, Benjamin Droguet, Qingchen Shen, Yun Zhang, Thomas G. Parton, Xiwei Shan, Richard M. Parker, Michael F. L. De Volder, Tao Deng, Silvia Vignolini, Tian Li
Advanced Science , 2202061 (2022)

Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments
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
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2022)

Deconvoluting the Optical Response of Biocompatible Photonic Pigments
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
Angewandte Chemie (2022)

Revealing the Structural Coloration of Self‐Assembled Chitin Nanocrystal Films
Aurimas Narkevicius, Richard M. Parker, Jordi Ferrer‐Orri, Thomas G. Parton, Zihao Lu, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials , 2203300 (2022)

Convergent evolution of disordered lipidic structural color in the fruits of Lantana strigocamara (syn. L. camara hybrid cultivar)
Miranda A. Sinnott‐Armstrong, Yu Ogawa, Gea Theodora van de Kerkhof, Silvia Vignolini, Stacey D. Smith
New Phytologist (2022)

Polysaccharide metabolism regulates structural colour in bacterial colonies
Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Lukas Schertel, Laura Catòn, Thomas G. Parton, Karin H. Müller, Heather F. Greer, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini
Journal of The Royal Society Interface 19 (2022)

Cellulose-Based Scattering Enhancers for Light Management Applications
Han Yang, Gianni Jacucci, Lukas Schertel, Silvia Vignolini
ACS Nano (2022)

The Limited Palette for Photonic Block‐Copolymer Materials: A Historical Problem or a Practical Limitation?
Zhen Wang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Richard M. Parker, Silvia Vignolini
Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2022)

The Limited Palette for Photonic Block‐Copolymer Materials: A Historical Problem or a Practical Limitation?
Zhen Wang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Richard M. Parker, Silvia Vignolini
Angewandte Chemie (2022)

3D-printed hierarchical pillar array electrodes for high-performance semi-artificial photosynthesis
Xiaolong Chen, Joshua M. Lawrence, Laura T. Wey, Lukas Schertel, Qingshen Jing, Silvia Vignolini, Christopher J. Howe, Sohini Kar-Narayan, Jenny Z. Zhang
Nature Materials (2022)

The Sustainable Materials Roadmap
Magda Titirici, Sterling G Baird, Taylor D Sparks, Shirley Min Yang, Agnieszka Brandt-Talbot, Omid Hosseinaei, David P Harper, Richard M Parker, Silvia Vignolini, Lars A Berglund, Yuanyuan Li, Huai-Ling Gao, Li-Bo Mao, Shu-Hong Yu, Noel Díez, Guillermo A Ferrero, Marta Sevilla, Petra Ágota Szilágyi, Connor J Stubbs, Joshua C Worch, Yunping Huang, Christine K Luscombe, Koon-Yang Lee, Hui Luo, M J Platts, Devendra Tiwari, Dmitry Kovalevskiy, David J Fermin, Heather Au, Hande Alptekin, Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra, Valeska P Ting, Tim-Patrick Fellinger, Jesús Barrio, Olivia Westhead, Claudie Roy, Ifan E L Stephens, Sabina Alexandra Nicolae, Saurav Ch Sarma, Rose P Oates, Chen-Gang Wang, Zibiao Li, Xian Jun Loh, Rupert J Myers, Niko Heeren, Alice Grégoire, Clément Périssé, Xiaoying Zhao, Yael Vodovotz, Becky Earley, Göran Finnveden, Anna Björklund, Gavin D J Harper, Allan Walton, Paul A Anderson
Journal of Physics: Materials (2022)

3D Printing of Liquid Crystalline Hydroxypropyl Cellulose—toward Tunable and Sustainable Volumetric Photonic Structures
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
Advanced Functional Materials , 2108566 (2022)

Recent Progress in Production Methods for Cellulose Nanocrystals: Leading to More Sustainable Processes
Yimian Tang, Han Yang, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Sustainable Systems , 2100100 (2022)

Modeling the Cholesteric Pitch of Apolar Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using a Chiral Hard-Bundle Model
Massimiliano Chiappini, Simone Dussi, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini, Marjolein Dijkstra
The Journal of Chemical Physics (2021)

Large-scale fabrication of structurally coloured cellulose nanocrystal films and effect pigments
Benjamin E. Droguet, Hsin-Ling Liang, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Richard M. Parker, Michael F. L. De Volder, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Silvia Vignolini
Nature Materials (2021)

Recent Advances in Block Copolymer Self‐Assembly for the Fabrication of Photonic Films and Pigments
Zhen Wang, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Tianheng H. Zhao, Richard M. Parker, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2021)

Mechanochromic, Structurally Colored, and Edible Hydrogels Prepared from Hydroxypropyl Cellulose and Gelatin
Charles H. Barty‐King, Chun Lam Clement Chan, Richard M. Parker, Mélanie M. Bay, Roberto Vadrucci, Michael De Volder, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2021)

Light Management with Natural Materials: From Whiteness to Transparency
Gianni Jacucci, Lukas Schertel, Yating Zhang, Han Yang, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2021)

Using structural colour to track length scale of cell‐wall layers in developing Pollia japonica fruits
Rox Middleton, Edwige Moyroud, Paula J. Rudall, Christina J. Prychid, Maria Conejero, Beverley J. Glover, Silvia Vignolini
New Phytologist (2021)

FullyPrinted Flexible Plasmonic Metafilms with Directional Color Dynamics
Jialong Peng, Hyeon‐Ho Jeong, Michael Smith, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Qianqi Lin, Hsin‐Ling Liang, Michael F. L. De Volder, Silvia Vignolini, Sohini Kar‐Narayan, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Advanced Science (2021)

Correction to ‘Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies’
Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2021)

Anisotropic silica colloids for light scattering
Gianni Jacucci, Brooke W. Longbottom, Christopher C. Parkins, Stefan A. F. Bon, Silvia Vignolini
Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2021)

Hyperspectral Imaging of Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films: Structure of Local Defects and Implications for Self-Assembly Pathways
Bonan Zhu, Villads E. Johansen, Gen Kamita, Giulia Guidetti, Mélanie M. Bay, Thomas G. Parton, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
ACS Nano (2020)

Angular‐Independent Photonic Pigments via the Controlled Micellization of Amphiphilic Bottlebrush Block Copolymers
Tianheng H. Zhao, Gianni Jacucci, Xi Chen, Dong‐Po Song, Silvia Vignolini, Richard M. Parker
Advanced Materials (2020)

The limitations of extending nature’s color palette in correlated, disordered systems
Gianni Jacucci, Silvia Vignolini, Lukas Schertel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)

Hereditary Character of Photonics Structure in Pachyrhynchus sarcitis Weevils: Color Changes via One Generation Hybridization
Yin Chang, Yu Ogawa, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Hui‐Yun Tseng, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2020)

Retrieving the Coassembly Pathway of Composite Cellulose Nanocrystal Photonic Films from their Angular Optical Response
Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Joel A. Kelly, Gianni Jacucci, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Nathan P. Crossette, Wadood Y. Hamad, Mark J. MacLachlan, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2020)

Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies
Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2020)

Plant-Inspired Polyaleuritate–Nanocellulose Composite Photonic Films
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
ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2020)

Cellulose Nanocrystal-Templated Tin Dioxide Thin Films for Gas Sensing
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
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2020)

Nanotechnology in a shrimp eye’s view
Lukas Schertel, Silvia Vignolini
Nature Nanotechnology (2020)

Disordered wax platelets on Tradescantia pallida leaves create golden shine
Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Lukas Schertel, Rebecca Nokjan Poon, Gianni Jacucci, Beverley J. Glover, Silvia Vignolini
Faraday Discussions (2020)

Bionic 3D printed corals
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
Nature Communications (2020)

Visual Appearance of Chiral Nematic Cellulose‐Based Photonic Films: Angular and Polarization Independent Color Response with a Twist
Chun Lam Clement Chan, Mélanie M. Bay, Gianni Jacucci, Roberto Vadrucci, Cyan A. Williams, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Richard M. Parker, Kevin Vynck, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2019)

Role of Anisotropy and Refractive Index in Scattering and Whiteness Optimization
Gianni Jacucci, Jacopo Bertolotti, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2019)

Ab initio nonrigid X-ray nanotomography
Michal Odstrcil, Mirko Holler, Jörg Raabe, Alessandro Sepe, Xiaoyuan Sheng, Silvia Vignolini, Christian G. Schroer, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos
Nature Communications (2019)

Controlling the Self-Assembly Behavior of Aqueous Chitin Nanocrystal Suspensions
Aurimas Narkevicius, Lisa M. Steiner, Richard M. Parker, Yu Ogawa, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Biomacromolecules (2019)

Printing of Responsive Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Microfilm Arrays
Tianheng H. Zhao, Richard M. Parker, Cyan A. Williams, Kevin T. P. Lim, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Functional Materials (2019)

Coherent backscattering of light by an anisotropic biological network
Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Antonio De Luca, Jacopo Bertolotti, Riccardo Sapienza, Silvia Vignolini
Interface Focus (2019)

Living light : optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures
Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Interface Focus (2019)

Structural colours in the frond of Microsorum thailandicum
Lisa Maria Steiner, Yu Ogawa, Villads Egede Johansen, Clive R. Lundquist, Heather Whitney, Silvia Vignolini
Interface Focus (2019)

Hierarchical Photonic Pigments via the Confined Self-Assembly of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers
Dong-Po Song, Tianheng H. Zhao, Giulia Guidetti, Silvia Vignolini, Richard M. Parker
ACS Nano (2019)

So much more than paper
Bruno Frka-Petesic, Silvia Vignolini
Nature Photonics (2019)

A storable mediatorless electrochemical biosensor for herbicide detection
Matteo Tucci, Paolo Bombelli, Christopher J. Howe, Silvia Vignolini, Stefano Bocchi, Andrea Schievano
Microorganisms (2019)

Angular optical response of cellulose nanocrystal films explained by the distortion of the arrested suspension upon drying
Bruno Frka-Petesic, Gen Kamita, Giulia Guidetti, Silvia Vignolini
Physical Review Materials (2019)

Long-Wavelength Reflecting Filters Found in the Larval Retinas of One Mantis Shrimp Family (Nannosquillidae)
Kathryn D. Feller, David Wilby, Gianni Jacucci, Silvia Vignolini, Judith Mantell, Trevor J. Wardill, Thomas W. Cronin, Nicholas W. Roberts
Current Biology (2019)

Enhancing Photoluminescence and Mobilities in WS2 Monolayers with Oleic Acid Ligands
Arelo O. A Tanoh, Jack Alexander-Webber, James Xiao, Géraud Delport, Cyan A. Williams, Hope Bretscher, Nicolas Gauriot, Jesse Allardice, Raj Pandya, Ye Fan, Zhaojun Li, Silvia Vignolini, Samuel D. Stranks, Stephan Hofmann, Akshay Rao
Nano Letters (2019)

Scalable electrochromic nanopixels using plasmonics
Jialong Peng, Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Qianqi Lin, Sean Cormier, Hsin-Ling Liang, Michael F. L. De Volder, Silvia Vignolini, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Science Advances (2019)

Roll-to-roll fabrication of touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates
Hsin-Ling Liang, Mélanie M. Bay, Roberto Vadrucci, Charles H. Barty-King, Jialong Peng, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Michael F. L. De Volder, Silvia Vignolini
Nature Communications (2018)

Unexpected stability of aqueous dispersions of raspberry-like colloids
Yang Lan, Alessio Caciagli, Giulia Guidetti, Ziyi Yu, Ji Liu, Villads E. Johansen, Marlous Kamp, Chris Abell, Silvia Vignolini, Oren A. Scherman, Erika Eiser
Nature Communications (2018)

Ultrastructure and optics of the prism‐like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)
Bodo D. Wilts, Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, Tom Gregory, Yu Ogawa, Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2018)

Bio‐inspired Highly Scattering Networks via Polymer Phase Separation
Julia Syurik, Gianni Jacucci, Olimpia D. Onelli, Hendrik Hölscher, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Functional Materials (2018)

The Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals: Hierarchical Design of Visual Appearance
Richard M. Parker, Giulia Guidetti, Cyan A. Williams, Tianheng Zhao, Aurimas Narkevicius, Silvia Vignolini, Bruno Frka‐Petesic
Advanced Materials (2018)

Anomalous-Diffusion-Assisted Brightness in White Cellulose Nanofibril Membranes
Matti S. Toivonen, Olimpia D. Onelli, Gianni Jacucci, Ville Lovikka, Orlando J. Rojas, Olli Ikkala, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2018)

Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies
Villads Egede Johansen, Laura Catón, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Els Oosterink, Bodo D. Wilts, Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, Michael Mario Sherlock, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)

Bioinspiration Across All Length Scales of Materials
Silvia Vignolini, Nico Bruns
Advanced Materials (2018)

Living light 2018: Conference report
Olimpia D. Onelli, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Biomimetics (2018)

Block Copolymer Micelles for Photonic Fluids and Crystals
Mikko Poutanen, Giulia Guidetti, Tina I. Gröschel, Oleg V. Borisov, Silvia Vignolini, Olli Ikkala, Andre H. Gröschel
ACS Nano (2018)

New horizons for cellulose nanotechnology
S. J. Eichhorn, S. S. Rahatekar, S. Vignolini, A. H. Windle
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (2018)

A flower's nano-powers

Physics World (2018)

Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales
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
Advanced Materials (2018)

Photonic Resins: Designing Optical Appearance via Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
Dong-Po Song, Gianni Jacucci, Feyza Dundar, Aditi Naik, Hua-Feng Fei, Silvia Vignolini, James J. Watkins
Macromolecules (2018)

Development of structural colour in leaf beetles.
Olimpia D. Onelli, Thomas van de Kamp, Jeremy N. Skepper, Janet Powell, Tomy dos Santos Rolo, Tilo Baumbach, Silvia Vignolini
Scientific Reports (2017)

Disordered Cellulose-Based Nanostructures for Enhanced Light Scattering.
Soraya Caixeiro, Matilda Peruzzo, Olimpia D. Onelli, Silvia Vignolini, Riccardo Sapienza
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2017)

Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films
B. D. Wilts, A. G. Dumanli, R. Middleton, P. Vukusic, S. Vignolini
APL Photonics (2017)

Structural Color in Marine Algae
Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Juliet Brodie, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2017)

Controlling the Photonic Properties of Cholesteric Cellulose Nanocrystal Films with Magnets
Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Materials (2017)

Light scattering optimization of chitin random network in ultrawhite beetle scales
Francesco Utel, Lorenzo Cortese, Lorenzo Pattelli, Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Diederik S. Wiersma
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (2017)

Disorder in convergent floral nanostructures enhances signalling to bees
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
Nature (2017)

Scalable and controlled self-assembly of aluminum-based random plasmonic metasurfaces
Radwanul Hasan Siddique, Jan Mertens, Hendrik Hölscher, Silvia Vignolini
Light: Science and Applications (2017)

Chapter 17: Bio-mimetic Structural Colour using Biopolymers
Rox Middleton, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
RSC Polymer Chemistry Series (2017)

Flexible Photonic Cellulose Nanocrystal Films.
Giulia Guidetti, Siham Atifi, Silvia Vignolini, Wadood Y. Hamad
Advanced Materials (2016)

Structural colour from helicoidal cell-wall architecture in fruits of Margaritaria nobilis
Silvia Vignolini, Thomas Gregory, Mathias Kolle, Alfie Lethbridge, Edwige Moyroud, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover, Peter Vukusic, Paula J. Rudall
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2016)

Colour formation on the wings of the butterfly Hypolimnas salmacis by scale stacking.
Radwanul Hasan Siddique, Silvia Vignolini, Carolin Bartels, Irene Wacker, Hendrik Hölscher
Scientific Reports (2016)

Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Cellulose Nanocrystals in a Confined Geometry.
Richard M. Parker, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Giulia Guidetti, Gen Kamita, Gioele Consani, Chris Abell, Silvia Vignolini
ACS Nano (2016)

Shape memory cellulose-based photonic reflectors
André Espinha, Giulia Guidetti, María C. Serrano, Bruno Frka-Petesic, Ahu Gümrah Dumanli, Wadood Y. Hamad, Álvaro Blanco, Cefe López, Silvia Vignolini
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2016)

Biocompatible and Sustainable Optical Strain Sensors for Large-Area Applications
Gen Kamita, Bruno Frka‐Petesic, Antoine Allard, Marielle Dargaud, Katie King, Ahu Gumrah Dumanli, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2016)

Block copolymer self-assembly for nanophotonics.
Morgan Stefik, Stefan Guldin, Silvia Vignolini, Ulrich Wiesner, Ullrich Steiner
Chemical Society Reviews (2015)

Structural colour in Chondrus crispus.
Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini, Juliet Brodie, Ullrich Steiner, Paula J. Rudall, Beverley J. Glover, Thomas Gregory, Rachel H. Walker
Scientific Reports (2015)

A high transmission wave-guide wire network made by self-assembly.
Stefano Salvatore, Silvia Vignolini, Julian Philpott, Morgan Stefik, Ulrich Wiesner, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner
Nanoscale (2015)

Anisotropic Light Transport in White Beetle Scales
Lorenzo Cortese, Lorenzo Pattelli, Francesco Utel, Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Diederik S. Wiersma
Advanced Optical Materials (2015)

Is floral iridescence a biologically relevant cue in plant-pollinator signalling? A response to van der Kooi et al. (2014b).
Silvia Vignolini, Edwige Moyroud, Thomas Hingant, Hannah Banks, Paula J. Rudall, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2015)

Optical Properties of Gyroid Structured Materials: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials
James A. Dolan, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Timothy D. Wilkinson
Advanced Optical Materials (2015)

The flower of Hibiscus trionum is both visibly and measurably iridescent.
Silvia Vignolini, Edwige Moyroud, Thomas Hingant, Hannah Banks, Paula J. Rudall, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2015)

Digital color in cellulose nanocrystal films.
Ahu Gümrah Dumanli, Hanne M. van der Kooij, Gen Kamita, Erwin Reisner, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2014)

Bright-white beetle scales optimise multiple scattering of light.
Matteo Burresi, Lorenzo Cortese, Lorenzo Pattelli, Mathias Kolle, Peter Vukusic, Diederik S. Wiersma, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Scientific Reports (2014)

Controlled, Bio-inspired Self-Assembly of Cellulose-Based Chiral Reflectors.
Ahu Gumrah Dumanli, Gen Kamita, Jasper Landman, Hanne van der Kooij, Beverley J. Glover, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2014)

Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media.
Francesco Riboli, Niccolò Caselli, Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Kevin Vynck, Pierre Barthelemy, Annamaria Gerardino, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli, Diederik S. Wiersma
Nature Materials (2014)

Light-directed writing of chemically tunable narrow-band holographic sensors
Ali K. Yetisen, Haider Butt, Fernando da Cruz Vasconcellos, Yunuen Montelongo, Colin A. B. Davidson, Jeff Blyth, Leon Chan, J. Bryan Carmody, Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Christopher R. Lowe
Advanced Optical Materials (2014)

Cellulose bio-inspired hierarchical structures
Silvia Vignolini
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2014)

Natural helicoidal structures: Morphology, self-assembly and optical properties
Bodo D. Wilts, Heather M. Whitney, Beverley J. Glover, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Materials Today: Proceedings (2014)

Erratum: Bright-White Beetle Scales Optimise Multiple Scattering of Light (Scientific Reports (2014) 4 (6075) DOI: 10.1038/srep06075)
Matteo Burresi, Lorenzo Cortese, Lorenzo Pattelli, Mathias Kolle, Peter Vukusic, Diederik S. Wiersma, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Scientific Reports (2014)

Ultrafast nonlinear response of gold gyroid three-dimensional metamaterials
Petros Farah, Angela Demetriadou, Stefano Salvatore, Silvia Vignolini, Morgan Stefik, Ulrich Wiesner, Ortwin Hess, Ullrich Steiner, Ventsislav K. Valev, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Physical Review Applied (2014)

Analysing photonic structures in plants
Silvia Vignolini, Edwige Moyroud, Beverley J. Glover, Ullrich Steiner
Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2013)

Structural Color and Iridescence in Transparent Sheared Cellulosic Films
Susete N. Fernandes, Yong Geng, Silvia Vignolini, Beverley J. Glover, Ana C. Trindade, João P. Canejo, Pedro L. Almeida, Pedro Brogueira, Maria H. Godinho
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (2013)

Buckling as an origin of ordered cuticular patterns in flower petals
Rea L. Antoniou Kourounioti, Leah R. Band, John A. Fozard, Anthony Hampstead, Anna Lovrics, Edwige Moyroud, Silvia Vignolini, John R. King, Oliver E. Jensen, Beverley J. Glover
Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2013)

The influence of pigmentation patterning on bumblebee foraging from flowers of Antirrhinum majus
Heather M. Whitney, Georgina Milne, Sean A. Rands, Silvia Vignolini, Cathie Martin, Beverley J. Glover
Naturwissenschaften (2013)

Hierarchical Orientation of Crystallinity by Block-Copolymer Patterning and Alignment in an Electric Field
Pola Goldberg-Oppenheimer, Dinesh Kabra, Silvia Vignolini, Sven Hüttner, Michael Sommer, Katharina Neumann, Mukundan Thelakkat, Ullrich Steiner
Chemistry of Materials (2013)

Tunable 3D Extended Self-Assembled Gold Metamaterials with Enhanced Light Transmission
Stefano Salvatore, Angela Demetriadou, Silvia Vignolini, Sang Soon Oh, Sebastian Wuestner, Nataliya A. Yufa, Morgan Stefik, Ulrich Wiesner, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ortwin Hess, Ullrich Steiner
Advanced Materials (2013)

Enhanced downconversion of UV light by resonant scattering of aluminum nanoparticles.
Rajeshkumar Mupparapu, Kevin Vynck, Iacopo Malfanti, Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Petra Scudo, Roberto Fusco, Diederik S Wiersma
Optics Letters (2012)

Directional scattering from the glossy flower of Ranunculus: how the buttercup lights up your chin
Silvia Vignolini, Meredith M. Thomas, Mathias Kolle, Tobias Wenzel, Alice Rowland, Paula J. Rudall, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Beverley J. Glover, Ullrich Steiner
Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2012)

Mode tuning of photonic crystal nanocavities by photoinduced non-thermal oxidation
Francesca Intonti, Niccolò Caselli, Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Santosh Kumar, Armando Rastelli, Oliver G. Schmidt, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Applied Physics Letters (2012)

Reply to Roberts et al.: Reflectivity and pointillist structural color on land and in water
Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012)

A 3D Optical Metamaterial Made by Self-Assembly
Silvia Vignolini, Nataliya A. Yufa, Pedro S. Cunha, Stefan Guldin, Ilia Rushkin, Morgan Stefik, Kahyun Hur, Ulrich Wiesner, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner
Advanced Materials (2012)

Ideal homoatomic and heteroatomic photonic crystal molecules
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications (2012)

Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit
Silvia Vignolini, Paula J. Rudall, Alice V. Rowland, Alison Reed, Edwige Moyroud, Robert B. Faden, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Beverley J. Glover, Ullrich Steiner
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2012)

Simultaneous near field imaging of electric and magnetic field in photonic crystal nanocavities
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications (2012)

Biomimetic layer-by-layer assembly of artificial nacre
Alexander Finnemore, Pedro Cunha, Tamaryn Shean, Silvia Vignolini, Stefan Guldin, Michelle Oyen, Ullrich Steiner
Nature Communications (2012)

Low-cost approach for broadband enhancement of ultraviolet to visible light downconversion in fluorescent media
Rajeshkumar Mupparapu, Kevin Vynck, Iacopo Malfanti, Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Petra Scudo, Roberto Fusco, Diederik S Wiersma
2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012 (2012)

Post-fabrication control of evanescent tunnelling in photonic crystal molecules
N. Caselli, F. Intonti, C. Bianchi, F. Riboli, S. Vignolini, L. Balet, L. H. Li, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, A. Fiore, M. Gurioli
Applied Physics Letters (2012)

The mirror crack'd: both pigment and structure contribute to the glossy blue appearance of the mirror orchid, Ophrys speculum
Silvia Vignolini, Matthew P. Davey, Richard M. Bateman, Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, Julia Tratt, Svante Malmgren, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2012)

Anderson localization of near-visible light in two dimensions
F. Riboli, P. Barthelemy, S. Vignolini, F. Intonti, A. De Rossi, S. Combrie, D. S. Wiersma
Optics Letters (2011)

Interplay of index contrast with periodicity in polymer photonic crystals
Chris E. Finlayson, Andrew I. Haines, David R. E. Snoswell, Andreas Kontogeorgos, Silvia Vignolini, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Peter Spahn, G. Peter Hellmann
Applied Physics Letters (2011)

Young's Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures
F. Intonti, F. Riboli, N. Caselli, M. Abbarchi, S. Vignolini, D. S. Wiersma, A. Vinattieri, D. Gerace, L. Balet, L. H. Li, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, A. Fiore, M. Gurioli
Physical Review Letters (2011)

Sub-Wavelength Probing and Modification of Complex Photonic Structures
Silvia Vignolini
book (2010)

Observation of vortices and field correlations in the near-field speckle of a three-dimensional photonic crystal.
Silvia Vignolini, Matteo Burresi, Stefano Gottardo, L. Kuipers, Diederik S. Wiersma
Optics Letters (2010)

Mode hybridization in photonic crystal molecules
Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Francesca Intonti, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Applied Physics Letters (2010)

Sub-wavelength probing and modification of photonic crystal nano-cavities
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Margherita Zani, Anna Vinattieri, Diederik S. Wiersma, Marcello Colocci, Laurent Balet, Lianhe Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications (2010)

Experimental mapping of the spatial and angular emission patterns in photonic crystal microcavities
M. Abbarchi, F. Intonti, F. Riboli, S. Vignolini, M. Zani, A. Vinattieri, L. Balet, L.H. Li, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, A. Fiore, M. Gurioli
Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures (2010)

Nanofluidic control of coupled photonic crystal resonators
Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli, Francesca Intonti
Applied Physics Letters (2010)

Tunable homo- and hetero-atomic photonic molecules
Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Silvia Vignolini, Diederik Sybolt Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
2010 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2010) (2010)

Magnetic Imaging in Photonic Crystal Microcavities
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Diederik S. Wiersma, Massimo Gurioli
Physical Review Letters (2010)

Near field mapping of coupled photonic crystal microcavities
S Vignolini, F Intonti, M Zani, F Riboli, D S Wiersma, L Balet, L H Li, M Francardi, A Gerardino, A Fiore, M Gurioli
11th International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (Oecs11) (2010)

Erratum: Magnetic imaging in photonic crystal microcavities (Physical Review Letters (2010) 105 (123902))
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Diederik S. Wiersma, Massimo Gurioli
Physical Review Letters (2010)

Polarization-sensitive near-field investigation of photonic crystal microcavities
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Riboli, Diederik S. Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS (2009)

Tuning of photonic crystal cavities by controlled removal of locally infiltrated water
Francesca Intonti, Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Margherita Zani, Diederik S. Wiersma, Laurent Balet, Lianhe H. Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Applied Physics Letters (2009)

Near-field imaging of coupled photonic-crystal microcavities
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Margherita Zani, Francesco Riboli, Diederik S. Wiersma, Lianhe H. Li, Laurent Balet, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS (2009)

Local nanofluidic light sources in silicon photonic crystal microcavities.
Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Francesca Intonti, Michele Belotti, Massimo Gurioli, Yong Chen, Marcello Colocci, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Diederik S. Wiersma
Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (2008)

Near-field mapping of quantum dot emission from single-photonic crystal cavity modes
F. Intonti, S. Vignolini, F. Riboli, A. Vinattieri, D.S. Wiersma, M. Colocci, M. Gurioli, L. Balet, C. Monat, L.H. Li, N. Le Thomas, R. Houdré, A. Fiore, M. Francardi, A. Gerardino, F. Roemer, B. Witzigmann
Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures (2008)

Nonlinear optical tuning of photonic crystal microcavities by near-field probe
Silvia Vignolini, Francesca Intonti, Laurent Balet, Margherita Zani, Francesco Riboli, Anna Vinattieri, Diederik S. Wiersma, Marcello Colocci, Lianhe Li, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Applied Physics Letters (2008)

Spectral tuning and near-field imaging of photonic crystal microcavities
Francesca Intonti, Silvia Vignolini, Francesco Riboli, Anna Vinattieri, Diederik S. Wiersma, Marcello Colocci, Laurent Balet, Christelle Monat, Carl Zinoni, Lianhe H. Li, Romuald Houdré, Marco Francardi, Annamaria Gerardino, Andrea Fiore, Massimo Gurioli
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2008)

Rewritable photonic circuits
Francesca Intonti, Silvia Vignolini, Volker Türck, Marcello Colocci, Paolo Bettotti, Lorenzo Pavesi, Stefan L. Schweizer, Ralf Wehrspohn, Diederik Wiersma
Applied Physics Letters (2006)

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