Brittlestar-inspired microlens arrays made of calcite single crystals

Xiaozhou Ye; Fei Zhang; Yurong Ma; Limin Qi

doi:10.1002/smll.201402765

Brittlestar-inspired microlens arrays made of calcite single crystals

Xiaozhou Ye, Fei Zhang, Yurong Ma, Limin Qi

Molecular Design and Biomimetics, Center for (MDB)

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Abstract

Unique concave microlens arrays (MLAs) made of calcite single crystals with tunable crystal orientations can be readily fabricated by template-assisted epitaxial growth in solution without additives under ambient conditions. While the non-birefringent calcite (001) MLA showed excellent imaging performance like brittlestar's microlens arrays, the birefringent calcite (104) MLA exhibited remarkable polarization-dependent optical properties.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1677-1682
Number of pages	6
Journal	Small
Volume	11
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201402765
State	Published - Apr 8 2015

Keywords

bioinspired fabrication
biomineralization
brittle stars
calcium carbonate
microlens arrays
microlenses

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Biotechnology
Chemistry(all)
Biomaterials
Materials Science(all)

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