An Ingenious Super Light Trapping Surface Templated from Butterfly Wing Scales

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Han, Zhiwu ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Mu, Zhengzhi ^a   Yang, Meng ^a   Niu, Shichao ^a   Zhang, Junqiu ^a   Ren, Luquan ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bio template fabrication; Butterfly wing scales; Light trapping materials

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; ETCHING; REFLECTION; SOLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BUTTERFLY WINGS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPY; HONEYCOMBLIKE STRUCTURES; LIGHT TRAPPING EFFECTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPLATE FABRICATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

FABRICATION;

TROGONOPTERA BROOKIANA;

EID: 84940104607     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-015-1052-7     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Zhu DF, Li X, Zhang G, Zhang X, Zhang X, Wang TQ, et al. Mimicking the rice leaf-from ordered binary structures to anisotropic wettability. Langmuir. 2010;26:14276–83.
2. Anjusree GS, Bhupathi A, Balakrishnan A, Vadukumpully S, Subramanian KRV, Sivakumar N, et al. Fabricating fiber, rice and leaf-shaped TiO2 by tuning the chemistry between TiO2 and the polymer during electrospinning. RSC Adv. 2013;3:16720–7.
3. Nishimoto S, Bhushan B. Bioinspired self-cleaning surfaces with superhydrophobicity, superoleophobicity, and superhydrophilicity. RSC Adv. 2013;3:671–90.
4. Liu Y, Li SY, Zhang JJ, Wang YM, Han ZW, Ren LQ. Fabrication of biomimetic superhydrophobic surface with controlled adhesion by electrodeposition. Chem Eng J. 2014;248:440–7.
5. Koch K, Bhushan B, Jung YC, Barthlott W. Fabrication of artificial lotus leaves and significance of hierarchical structure for superhydrophobicity and low adhesion. Soft Matter. 2009;5:1386–93.
6. Park H, Shin D, Kang G, Baek S, Kim K, Padilla WJ. Broadband optical antireflection enhancement by integrating antireflective nanoislands with silicon nanoconical-frustum arrays. Adv Mater. 2011;23:5796–800.
7. Liu KS, Jiang L. Multifunctional integration: from biological to bio-inspired materials. ACS Nano. 2011;5:6786–90.
8. Chen Q, Hubbard G, Shields PA, Liu C, Allsopp DWE, Wang WN, et al. Broadband moth-eye antireflection coatings fabricated by low-cost nanoimprinting. Appl Phys Lett. 2009;94:263118.
9. Ju J, Yao X, Yang S, Wang L, Sun RZ, He YX, et al. Cactus stem inspired cone-arrayed surfaces for efficient fog collection. Adv Funct Mater. 2014;24:6933–8.
10. Cao MY, Ju J, Li K, Dou SX, Liu KS, Jiang L. Facile and large-scale fabrication of a cactus-inspired continuous fog collector. Adv Funct Mater. 2014;24:3235–40.
11. Wang ZZ, Gu P, Wu XP. A gecko-inspired double-sided adhesive. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2013;15:20764–70.
12. Su YW, Ji BH, Huang YG, Hwang K. Effects of contact shape on biological wet adhesion. J Mater Sci. 2007;42:8885–93.
13. Liu KS, Tian Y, Jiang L. Bio-inspired superoleophobic and smart materials: design, fabrication, and application. Prog Mater Sci. 2013;58:503–64.
14. Ji XY, Wang JW, Feng XQ. Role of flexibility in the water repellency of water strider legs: theory and experiment. Phys Rev E. 2012;85:021607.
15. Niu SC, Li B, Mu ZZ, Yang M, Zhang JQ, Han ZW, et al. Excellent structure-based multifunction of Morpho butterfly wings: a review. J Bionic Eng. 2015;12:170–89.
16. Zhang D, Zhang W, Gu JJ, Fan TX, Liu QL, Su HL, et al. Butterfly effects: novel functional materials inspired from the wings scales. Prog Mater Sci. 2015;68:67–96.
17. England G, Kolle M, Kim P, Khan M, Muñoz P, Mazur E, et al. Bioinspired micrograting arrays mimicking the reverse color diffraction elements evolved by the butterfly Pierella luna. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2014;111:15630–4.
18. Pris AD, Utturkar Y, Surman C, Morris WG, Vert A, Zalyubovskiy S, et al. Towards high-speed imaging of infrared photons with bio-inspired nanoarchitectures. Nat Photonics. 2012;6:195–200.
19. Zhang W, Tian JL, Wang YA, Fang XT, Huang YQ, Chen WX, et al. Single porous SnO2 microtubes templated from Papilio maacki bristles: new structure towards superior gas sensing. J Mater Chem A. 2014;2:4543–50.
20. Han ZW, Niu SC, Yang M, Mu ZZ, Li B, Zhang JQ, et al. Unparalleled sensitivity of photonic structures in butterfly wings. RSC Adv. 2014;4:45214–9.
21. Han ZW, Niu SC, Zhang LF, Liu ZN, Ren LQ. Light trapping effect in wing scales of butterfly Papilio peranthus and its simulations. J Bionic Eng. 2013;10:162–9.
22. Han ZW, Niu SC, Shang CH, Liu ZN, Ren LQ. Light trapping structures in wing scales of butterfly Trogonoptera brookiana. Nanoscale. 2012;4:2879–83.
23. Martín-Palma RJ, Pantano CG, Lakhtakia A. Biomimetization of butterfly wings by the conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation technique for photonics. Appl Phys Lett. 2008;93:083901.
24. Zhao QB, Fan TX, Ding J, Zhang D, Guo QX, Kamada M. Super black and ultrathin amorphous carbon film inspired by anti-reflection architecture in butterfly wing. Carbon. 2011;49:877–83.
25. Zhao QB, Guo XM, Fan TX, Ding J, Zhang D, Guo QX. Art of blackness in butterfly wings as natural solar collector. Soft Matter. 2011;7:11433.
26. Zhang FY, Shen QC, Shi XD, Li SP, Wang WL, Luo Z, et al. Infrared detection based on localized modification of Morpho butterfly wings. Adv Mater. 2015;27:1077–82.
27. Potyrailo RA, Ghiradella H, Vertiatchikh A, Dovidenko K, Cournoyer JR, Olson E. Morpho butterfly wing scales demonstrate highly selective vapour response. Nat Photonics. 2007;1:123–8.
28. Kang SH, Tai TY, Fang TH. Replication of butterfly wing microstructures using molding lithography. Curr Appl Phys. 2010;10:625–30.
29. Liu F, Liu YP, Huang L, Hu XH, Dong BQ, Shi WZ, et al. Replication of homologous optical and hydrophobic features by templating wings of butterflies Morpho menelaus. Opt Commun. 2011;284:2376–81.
30. Kolle M, Salgard-Cunha PM, Scherer MR, Huang F, Vukusic P, Mahajan S, et al. Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly. Nat Nanotechnol. 2010;5:511–5.
31. Hiller J, Mendelsohn JD, Rubner MF. Reversibly erasable nanoporous anti-reflection coatings from polyelectrolyte multilayers. Nat Nanotechnol. 2002;1:59–63.
32. Miyako E, Sugino T, Okazaki T, Bianco A, Yudasaka M, Iijima S. Self-assembled carbon nanotube honeycomb networks using a butterfly wing template as a multifunctional nanobiohybrid. ACS Nano. 2013;7:8736–42.
33. Tang J, Zhu SM, Chen ZX, Feng CL, Shen YJ, Yao F, et al. Replication of polypyrrole with photonic structures from butterfly wings as biosensor. Mater Chem Phys. 2012;131:706–13.
34. Ding L, Zhou H, Lou S, Ding J, Zhang D, Zhu HX, et al. Butterfly wing architecture assisted CdS/Au/TiO2 Z-scheme type photocatalytic water splitting. Int J Hydrogen Energ. 2013;38:8244–53.
35. Yao F, Yang QQ, Yin C, Zhu SM, Zhang D, Moon WJ, et al. Biomimetic Bi2WO6 with hierarchical structures from butterfly wings for visible light absorption. Mater Lett. 2012;77:21–4.
36. Peng WH, Zhu SM, Zhang W, Yang QQ, Zhang D, Chen ZX. Spectral selectivity of 3D magnetophotonic crystal film fabricated from single butterfly wing scales. Nanoscale. 2014;6:6133–40.
37. Wang ZY, Zhang RJ, Wang SY, Lu M, Chen X, Zheng YX, et al. Broadband optical absorption by tunable Mie resonances in silicon nanocone arrays. Sci Rep. 2015;5:7810.
38. Wu ZL, Wang ZY, Wang SY, Zhong ZY. Substantial influence on solar energy harnessing ability by geometries of ordered Si nanowire array. Nanoscale Res Lett. 2014;9:495.
39. Spinelli P, Verschuuren MA, Polman A. Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength surface Mie resonators. Nat Commun. 2012;3:692.
40. Xi JQ, Schubert MF, Kim JK, Schubert EF, Chen MF, Lin SY, et al. Optical thin-film materials with low refractive index for broadband elimination of Fresnel reflection. Nat Photonics. 2007;1:176–9.