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PHOTONIC CRYSTALS have been featured a number of times in this blog, as nature's first semiconductor, asymmetrically splitting photons to cause reflectance and light wave interference so that iridescent colors can be generated. Examples include iridescent beetle wings and butterfly wings. Now humans are playing catch-up with nature and using this highly evolved system for technical applications. View in LinkedIn

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"PHASE-CHANGE MATERIALS are some of the most promising materials for data-storage applications." https://lnkd.in/dPfi2nW View in LinkedIn

"OPTOELECTRONIC phase change materials (PCM) have markedly different optical reflectivity and electrical conductivity in their disordered and ordered phases. They can be switched rapidly and reversibly between their better conducting crystalline and the more insulating amorphous phases. Owing to their properties, PCMs are used as non-volatile memory materials and bear promise as materials for programmable logic circuits." https://lnkd.in/eC9wHtZ View in LinkedIn

OPTICAL ACTIVITY due to chirally asymmetrical molecules is a common phenomenon in natural systems. "Millions of years before we began to manipulate the flow of light using synthetic structures, biological systems were using nanometre-scale architectures to produce striking optical effects. An astonishing variety of natural photonic structures exists." Great summary article. https://lnkd.in/d8Egb3r View in LinkedIn

BIO-ELECTRONICS. "The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called glycine." https://lnkd.in/dNJ5KUh View in LinkedIn

MIT THINK-TANK. "In March 2003, the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group had brainstorming sessions to determine the potential applications of synthetic biology." Plug and play scenarios to program life to do useful tasks. https://lnkd.in/dvqkZVm View in LinkedIn

SMART SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING. "The ability to supply molecular signals able to guide the cellular response on these new semi-synthetic biomaterials represent a tremendous innovation in the area of tissue engineering." https://lnkd.in/dzmFFn6 View in LinkedIn