Silk inverse opals

Researchers bring together silk and photonic crystals and report the manufacturing of robust, freestanding, three-dimensional photonic crystals with different lattice constants in the structural form of an inverse opal entirely composed of silk fibroin. These silk-based inverse opals add a new dimension at the interface of nanophotonics and biological applications.

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