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WILTS Bodo

Alumni

Ambizione Fellow, Soft Matter Physics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Office:	B126
Phone:	+41 26 300 8969
Email:	bodo.wilts@unifr.ch
	0000-0002-2727-7128

Projects lead

Designed functional optical multilayers

Functional optical materials with designed properties are manufactured.

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Photonic structures in nature

Diverse photonic nanostructures in nature feature a wealth of optical properties.

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Imaging Bio-inspired Materials

Structural insight from x-ray tomography allows input from nature into novel materials

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Projects team

3D optical metamaterials

Replication of 3D nanostructured networks into plasmonic metals gives rise to optical metamaterials

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Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)

Discovering hidden correlations in disordered photonic materials

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Publications

Pachyrhynchus Weevils Use 3D Photonic Crystals with Varying Degrees of Order to Create Diverse and Brilliant Displays
Alessandro Parisotto, Ullrich Steiner, Analyn Anzano Cabras, Matthew H. Van Dam, Bodo D. Wilts
Small , 2200592 (2022)

Gradients of orientation, composition and hydration of proteins for efficient light collection by the cornea of the horseshoe crab
Oliver Spaeker, Gavin Taylor, Bodo Wilts, Tomáš Slabý, Mohamed Ashraf Khalil Abdel-Rahman, Ernesto Scoppola, Clemens NZ Schmitt, Michael Sztucki, Jiliang Liu, Luca Bertinetti, Wolfgang Wagermaier, Gerhard Scholtz, Peter Fratzl, Yael Politi
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Enhancing the Refractive Index of Polymers with a Plant‐Based Pigment
Mohammad Yasir, Tianqi Sai, Alba Sicher, Frank Scheffold, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Eric R. Dufresne
Small 17 , 2103061 (2021)

Cortex Thickness Is Key for the Colors of Iridescent Starling Feather Barbules With a Single, Organized Melanosome Layer
Pascal Freyer, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 (2021)

Heterolytic Bond Cleavage in a Scissile Triarylmethane Mechanophore
James R. Hemmer, Chris Rader, Bodo D. Wilts, Christoph Weder, José Augusto Berrocal
Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 , 18859-18863 (2021)

Light Polarization by Biological Nanocoatings
Mikhail Kryuchkov, Vladimir Savitsky, Bodo D. Wilts, Elmer Gray, Vladimir L. Katanaev
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2021)

Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers
Federico Ferrari, Jonas Braun, Christopher E. Anson, Bodo D. Wilts, Dafni Moatsou, Claudia Bizzarri
Molecules (2021)

Insect Antiadhesive Surfaces Using Electrosprayed Wrinkled Ethyl Cellulose Particles
Johannes B. Bergmann, Alexandre Redondo, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Dafni Moatsou
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2021)

Distributed Bragg reflectors from colloidal trilayer flake solutions
Mirela Malekovic, Esteban Bermúdez-Ureña, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
APL Photonics (2021)

Correction to ‘Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies’
Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2021)

Hyperbolic Optical Metamaterials from Shear‐Aligned Block Copolymer Cylinder Arrays
Cédric Kilchoer, Doha Abdelrahman, S. Narjes Abdollahi, Ava A. LaRocca, Ullrich Steiner, Matthias Saba, Ilja Gunkel, Bodo D. Wilts
Advanced Photonics Research (2020)

Carbon‐Assisted Stable Silver Nanostructures
S. Narjes Abdollahi, Efraín Ochoa Martínez, Cédric Kilchoer, Geoffroy Kremer, Thomas Jaouen, Philipp Aebi, Tim Hellmann, Thomas Mayer, Yibei Gu, Ulrich B. Wiesner, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Ilja Gunkel
Advanced Materials Interfaces (2020)

Fruit Coloration: Attractive, Fatty Blue Colours?
Bodo D. Wilts
Current Biology (2020)

Soft Photonic Fibers for Colorimetric Solvent Vapor Sensing
Mirela Malekovic, Markus Urann, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Mathias Kolle
Advanced Optical Materials (2020)

Evolutionary algorithms converge towards evolved biological photonic structures.
Mamadou Aliou Barry, Vincent Berthier, Bodo D. Wilts, Marie-Claire Cambourieux, Pauline Bennet, Rémi Pollès, Olivier Teytaud, Emmanuel Centeno, Nicolas Biais, Antoine Moreau
Scientific reports (2020)

Structural Diversity with Varying Disorder Enables the Multicolored Display in the Longhorn Beetle Sulawesiella rafaelae
Esteban Bermúdez-Ureña, Cédric Kilchoer, Nathan P. Lord, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
iScience (2020)

Strong Circular Dichroism in Single Gyroid Optical Metamaterials
Cédric Kilchoer, Narjes Abdollahi, James A. Dolan, Doha Abdelrahman, Matthias Saba, Ulrich Wiesner, Ullrich Steiner, Ilja Gunkel, Bodo D. Wilts
Advanced Optical Materials (2020)

Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies
Lukas Schertel, Gea T. van de Kerkhof, Gianni Jacucci, Laura Catón, Yu Ogawa, Bodo D. Wilts, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini, Villads E. Johansen
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2020)

Polymerization‐Induced Wrinkled Surfaces with Controlled Topography as Slippery Surfaces for Colorado Potato Beetles
Johannes B. Bergmann, Dafni Moatsou, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Marc Thielen, Thomas Speck, Bodo D. Wilts, Ullrich Steiner
Advanced Materials Interfaces (2020)

What's in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail
Eunice J. Tan, Bodo D. Wilts, Brent T. K. Tan, Antónia Monteiro
Ecology and Evolution (2020)

Orientation-Dependent Reflection of Structurally Coloured Butterflies
Sigrid Zobl, Bodo D. Wilts, Willi Salvenmoser, Peter Pölt, Ille C. Gebeshuber, Thorsten Schwerte
Biomimetics (2020)

Polydopamine Nanoparticle Doped Nanofluid for Solar Thermal Energy Collector Efficiency Increase
Daniel Hauser, Lukas Steinmetz, Sandor Balog, Patricia Taladriz‐Blanco, Dedy Septiadi, Bodo D. Wilts, Alke Petri‐Fink, Barbara Rothen‐Rutishauser
Advanced Sustainable Systems (2020)

Designing Refractive Index Fluids using the Kramers-Kronig Relations
Tianqi Sai, Matthias Saba, Eric R. Dufresne, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
Faraday Discussions (2020)

Ultra-dense, curved grating optics determines peacock spider coloration
Bodo D. Wilts, Jürgen Otto, Doekele G. Stavenga
Nanoscale Advances (2020)

Determining the complex Jones matrix elements of a chiral 3D optical metamaterial
Cédric Kilchoer, Narjes Abdollahi, Ullrich Steiner, Ilja Gunkel, Bodo D. Wilts
APL Photonics (2019)

Humidity-dependent colour change in the green forester moth, Adscita statices
Bodo D. Wilts, Karolina Mothander, Almut Kelber
Biology Letters (2019)

A Dynamic Optical Signal in a Nocturnal Moth.
Jennifer L. Kelley, Nikolai J. Tatarnic, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, John A. Endler, Bodo D. Wilts
Current biology : CB (2019)

Measuring the refractive index dispersion of (un)pigmented biological tissues by Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy
Doekele G. Stavenga, Bodo D. Wilts
AIP Advances (2019)

Pterin-pigmented nanospheres create the colours of the polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans
Miriam J. Henze, Olle Lind, Bodo D. Wilts, Almut Kelber
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2019)

Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths
Cédric Kilchoer, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
Interface Focus (2019)

Living light : optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures
Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Interface Focus (2019)

Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus
Pascal Freyer, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga
Interface Focus (2019)

When Black and White make Green: the Surprising Interplay of Structure and Pigments.
Tianqi Sai, Bodo D. Wilts, Alba Sicher, Ullrich Steiner, Frank Scheffold, Eric R. Dufresne
Chimia (2019)

Diffusive structural colour in Hoplia argentea
Cédric Kilchoer, Primož Pirih, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Experimental Biology (2019)

Living light: optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures.

Interface Focus (2018)

A Literal Elytral Rainbow: Tunable Structural Colors Using Single Diamond Biophotonic Crystals in Pachyrrhynchus congestus Weevils
Bodo D. Wilts, Vinodkumar Saranathan
Small (2018)

Controlling Self‐Assembly in Gyroid Terpolymer Films By Solvent Vapor Annealing
James A. Dolan, Karolina Korzeb, Raphael Dehmel, Karl C. Gödel, Morgan Stefik, Ulrich Wiesner, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Bodo D. Wilts, Ullrich Steiner, Ilja Gunkel
Small (2018)

Metasurfaces Atop Metamaterials: Surface Morphology Induces Linear Dichroism in Gyroid Optical Metamaterials
James A. Dolan, Raphael Dehmel, Angela Demetriadou, Yibei Gu, Ulrich Wiesner, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Ilja Gunkel, Ortwin Hess, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Matthias Saba, Bodo D. Wilts
Advanced Materials (2018)

Ultrastructure and optics of the prism‐like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)
Bodo D. Wilts, Paula J. Rudall, Edwige Moyroud, Tom Gregory, Yu Ogawa, Silvia Vignolini, Ullrich Steiner, Beverley J. Glover
New Phytologist (2018)

Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales
Bodo D. Wilts, Xiaoyuan Sheng, Mirko Holler, Ana Diaz, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Jörg Raabe, Robert Hoppe, Shu-Hao Liu, Richard Langford, Olimpia D. Onelli, Duyu Chen, Salvatore Torquato, Ullrich Steiner, Christian G. Schroer, Silvia Vignolini, Alessandro Sepe
Advanced Materials (2018)

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects
Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Jared Houghtaling, Bodo D. Wilts, Michael Mayer
Advanced Materials (2018)

Living Light 2018: Conference Report
Olimpia Onelli, Bodo Wilts, Silvia Vignolini
Biomimetics (2018)

Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies
Villads Egede Johansen, Laura Catón, Raditijo Hamidjaja, Els Oosterink, Bodo D. Wilts, Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, Michael Mario Sherlock, Colin J. Ingham, Silvia Vignolini
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)

Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms
Bodo D. Wilts, Aidan J. M. Vey, Adriana D. Briscoe, Doekele G. Stavenga
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2017)

Spectrally resolved surface plasmon resonance dispersion using half-ball optics
Raphael Dehmel, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
Applied Physics Letters (2017)

Nanodroplet-Containing Polymers for Efficient Low-Power Light Upconversion
Roberto Vadrucci, Angelo Monguzzi, Felipe Saenz, Bodo D. Wilts, Yoan C. Simon, Christoph Weder
Advanced Materials (2017)

Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics
Doekele G. Stavenga, Casper J. van der Kooi, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2017)

Optical Imaging of Large Gyroid Grains in Block Copolymer Templates by Confined Crystallization
Raphael Dehmel, James A. Dolan, Yibei Gu, Ulrich Wiesner, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts, Ilja Gunkel
Macromolecules (2017)

Circularly polarized reflection from the scarab beetle Chalcothea smaragdina : light scattering by a dual photonic structure
Luke T. McDonald, Ewan D. Finlayson, Bodo D. Wilts, Pete Vukusic
Interface Focus (2017)

Emergence and function of complex form in self-assembly and biological cells
Stephen T. Hyde, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk, Myfanwy E. Evans, Bodo D. Wilts
Interface Focus (2017)

Mesoporous Titania Microspheres with Highly Tunable Pores as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries
Michael G. Fischer, Xiao Hua, Bodo D. Wilts, Ilja Gunkel, Thomas M. Bennett, Ullrich Steiner
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2017)

Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development
Bodo D. Wilts, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, Michael A. Klatt, Benjamin Butz, Michael G. Fischer, Stephen T. Kelly, Erdmann Spiecker, Ullrich Steiner, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk
Science Advances (2017)

Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films
B. D. Wilts, A. G. Dumanli, R. Middleton, P. Vukusic, S. Vignolini
APL Photonics (2017)

Formation of Synthetic Nanopores with Diameters from 20-50 nm by Laser-Assisted Dielectric Breakdown
Cuifeng Ying, Jared Houghtaling, Bodo Wilts, Michael Mayer
Biophysical Journal (2017)

Polymer-Templated LiFePO4/C Nanonetworks as High-Performance Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Michael G. Fischer, Xiao Hua, Bodo D. Wilts, Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez, Ullrich Steiner
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2017)

Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes
Doekele G. Stavenga, Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Experimental Biology (2017)

Patterning of perovskite–polymer films by wrinkling instabilities
G. Nasti, S. Sanchez, I. Gunkel, S. Balog, B. Roose, B. D. Wilts, J. Teuscher, G. Gentile, P. Cerruti, V. Ambrogi, C. Carfagna, U. Steiner, A. Abate
Soft Matter (2017)

Extreme Refractive Index Wing Scale Beads Containing Dense Pterin Pigments Cause the Bright Colors of Pierid Butterflies
Bodo D. Wilts, Bas Wijnen, Hein L. Leertouwer, Ullrich Steiner, Doekele G. Stavenga
Advanced Optical Materials (2016)

Structural Color in Marine Algae
Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Juliet Brodie, Silvia Vignolini
Advanced Optical Materials (2016)

Gyroid Optical Metamaterials: Calculating the Effective Permittivity of Multidomain Samples
James A. Dolan, Matthias Saba, Raphael Dehmel, Ilja Gunkel, Yibei Gu, Ulrich Wiesner, Ortwin Hess, Timothy D. Wilkinson, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
ACS Photonics (2016)

Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke’s birdwing butterflies
Bodo D. Wilts, Marco A. Giraldo, Doekele G. Stavenga
Frontiers in Zoology (2016)

Splendid coloration of the peacock spiderMaratus splendens
Doekele G. Stavenga, Jürgen C. Otto, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2016)

Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales
Bodo D. Wilts, Atsuko Matsushita, Kentaro Arikawa, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2015)

Structural colour in Chondrus crispus
Chris J. Chandler, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini, Juliet Brodie, Ullrich Steiner, Paula J. Rudall, Beverley J. Glover, Thomas Gregory, Rachel H. Walker
Scientific Reports (2015)

Swelling and Softening of the Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus in Response to pH Shifts
Bodo D. Wilts, Iwan A.T. Schaap, Christoph F. Schmidt
Biophysical Journal (2015)

High refractive index of melanin in shiny occipital feathers of a bird of paradise
Doekele G Stavenga, Hein L Leertouwer, Daniel C Osorio, Bodo D Wilts
Light: Science & Applications (2015)

Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Through Nd-Doping of Mesostructured TiO2
Bart Roose, Karl C. Gödel, Sandeep Pathak, Aditya Sadhanala, Juan Pablo Correa Baena, Bodo D. Wilts, Henry J. Snaith, Ulrich Wiesner, Michael Grätzel, Ullrich Steiner, Antonio Abate
Advanced Energy Materials (2015)

Optical Properties of Gyroid Structured Materials: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials
James A. Dolan, Bodo D. Wilts, Silvia Vignolini, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Ullrich Steiner, Timothy D. Wilkinson
Advanced Optical Materials (2014)

Gold nanoparticles explore cells: Cellular uptake and their use as intracellular probes
Anna Huefner, Dedy Septiadi, Bodo D. Wilts, Imran I. Patel, Wei-Li Kuan, Alexandra Fragniere, Roger A. Barker, Sumeet Mahajan
Methods (2014)

Pigmentary and photonic coloration mechanisms reveal taxonomic relationships of the Cattlehearts (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parides)
Bodo D Wilts, Natasja IJbema, Doekele G Stavenga
BMC Evolutionary Biology (2014)

Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling
Casper J. Kooi, Bodo D. Wilts, Hein L. Leertouwer, Marten Staal, J. Theo M. Elzenga, Doekele G. Stavenga
New Phytologist (2014)

The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin
Doekele G. Stavenga, Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2014)

Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling
Bodo D. Wilts, Kristel Michielsen, Hans De Raedt, Doekele G. Stavenga
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)

Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking
Doekele G. Stavenga, Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Experimental Biology (2014)

Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters
Doekele G. Stavenga, Bodo D. Wilts
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2014)

Natural Helicoidal Structures: Morphology, Self-assembly and Optical Properties
Bodo D. Wilts, Heather M. Whitney, Beverley J. Glover, Ullrich Steiner, Silvia Vignolini
Materials Today: Proceedings (2014)

Absence of Circular Polarisation in Reflections of Butterfly Wing Scales with Chiral Gyroid Structure
Matthias Saba, Bodo D. Wilts, Johannes Hielscher, Gerd E. Schröder-Turk
Materials Today: Proceedings (2014)

The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge
Franziska Schenk, Bodo D Wilts, Doekele G Stavenga
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2013)

Spectral tuning of Amazon parrot feather coloration by psittacofulvin pigments and spongy structures
Jan Tinbergen, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of Experimental Biology (2013)

Quantifying the refractive index dispersion of a pigmented biological tissue using Jamin–Lebedeff interference microscopy
Doekele G Stavenga, Hein L Leertouwer, Bodo D Wilts
Light: Science & Applications (2013)

Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly,Curetis acuta
Bodo D. Wilts, Primož Pirih, Kentaro Arikawa, Doekele G. Stavenga
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2013)

Shine and Hide: Biological Photonic Crystals on the Wings of Weevils
Bodo D. Wilts, Natasja IJbema, Kristel Michielsen, Hans De Raedt, Doekele G. Stavenga
MRS Proceedings (2013)

Are insect displays tuned to insect vision?
Wilts Bodo, Stavenga Doekele
(2013)

Sexual Dichromatism of the Damselfly Calopteryx japonica Caused by a Melanin-Chitin Multilayer in the Male Wing Veins
Doekele G. Stavenga, Hein L. Leertouwer, Takahiko Hariyama, Hans A. De Raedt, Bodo D. Wilts
PLoS ONE (2012)

Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group
Tomasz M. Trzeciak, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga, Peter Vukusic
Optics Express (2012)

Papiliochrome II pigment reduces the angle dependency of structural wing colouration in nireus group papilionids
Bodo D. Wilts, Tomasz M. Trzeciak, Peter Vukusic, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of Experimental Biology (2012)

Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis
Bodo D. Wilts, Kristel Michielsen, Jeroen Kuipers, Hans De Raedt, Doekele G. Stavenga
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2012)

Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors
Doekele G. Stavenga, Atsuko Matsushita, Kentaro Arikawa, Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Experimental Biology (2012)

Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy
Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga
Optics Express (2011)

Kingfisher feathers - colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films
Doekele G. Stavenga, Jan Tinbergen, Hein L. Leertouwer, Bodo D. Wilts
Journal of Experimental Biology (2011)

Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales
Primož Pirih, Bodo D. Wilts, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2011)

Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings
Bodo D. Wilts, Primož Pirih, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of Comparative Physiology A (2011)

Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal
Bodo D. Wilts, Kristel Michielsen, Hans De Raedt, Doekele G. Stavenga
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2011)

Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales
Bodo D. Wilts, Kristel Michielsen, Hans De Raedt, Doekele G. Stavenga
Interface Focus (2011)

Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima
Doekele G. Stavenga, Bodo D. Wilts, Hein L. Leertouwer, Takahiko Hariyama
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2011)

Swelling and Softening of the CCMV Plant Virus Capsid in Response to pH Shifts
Bodo D. Wilts, Iwan A.T. Schaap, Mark J. Young, Trevor Douglas, Charles M. Knobler, Christoph F. Schmidt
Biophysical Journal (2010)

Imaging scatterometry and microspectrophotometry of lycaenid butterfly wing scales with perforated multilayers
Bodo D Wilts, Hein L Leertouwer, Doekele G Stavenga
Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2008)

WILTS Bodo

Designed functional optical multilayers

Photonic structures in nature

Imaging Bio-inspired Materials

3D optical metamaterials

Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC)