Optical properties of diatom nanostructured biosilica in Arachnoidiscus sp: Micro-optics from mother nature

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ferrara, Maria Antonietta ^a   Dardano, Principia ^a   De Stefano, Luca ^a   Rea, Ilaria ^a   Coppola, Giuseppe ^a   Rendina, Ivo ^a   Congestri, Roberta ^b   Antonucci, Alessandra ^c   De Stefano, Mario ^c   De Tommasi, Edoardo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARACHNOIDISCUS; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIATOM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRUSTULE; HOLOGRAPHY; HYDROGENATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROSHELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROTOPLASM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SPECTROMETER; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DIATOMS; LIGHT; NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84905003330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103750     Document Type: Article

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