Bio-Optics and Bio-Inspired Optical Materials

Chemical Reviews

Volumn 117, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 12705-12763

  Tadepalli, Sirimuvva ^a   Slocik, Joseph M ^b   Gupta, Maneesh K ^b   Naik, Rajesh R ^b   Singamaneni, Srikanth ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MICRO AND NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS; OPTICAL STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 85032289810     PISSN: 00092665     EISSN: 15206890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00153     Document Type: Article

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