3D Nonlinear Photonic Crystals from Biotemplating Investigating the interplay between a 3D linear photonic crystal and a nonlinear optical material Read more
Amyloid-based structural color for circular dairy economy We’re developing tamper-proof, brightly colored labels from dairy by-products to combat counterfeiting… Read more
Angle-Independent Structural Color in Stretchable Materials We engineer iridescent elastomers with tailored surface roughness to achieve vivid, structural colour… Read more
Bio-Inspired Photonic Pigments for Non-Fading, Structural Colouration (Marie-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship) Inspired by nature’s most vibrant colors, COLOUR project pioneers a new class of photonic pigments that… Read more
Colloidal Depletion for Sorting and Structural Coloration We harness depletion forces to control colloidal interactions—enabling precision sorting and the emergence… Read more
Colloidal self-assembly for fabricating optical materials Structured materials made from the self-assembly of colloidal particles Read more
Complete photonic band gap materials Three dimensional photonic crystals with complete photonic band gap obtained via the self-assembly of… Read more
Computer-generated disordered networks for photonic bandgap Random nanoscale networks in insects reveal how disorder can create brilliant structural colours Read more
Disordered Diamond-Like Colloidal Networks for Photonic Bandgap Materials We design self-assembled colloidal structures with diamond symmetry and controlled disorder—enabling… Read more
Inverted 3D Photonic Crystals from Colloidal Self-Assembly Using templated self-assembly and material inversion, this project creates 3D photonic crystals with… Read more
Living Colors: Magnetically Tunable Photonic Gels for Adaptive Camouflage Inspired by cephalopods, we design soft materials that change color on demand using magnetic fields and… Read more
Microfluidics for Tailored Photonic Microparticle Fabrication Microfluidic techniques enable the precise and scalable fabrication of polymer microparticles with controlled… Read more
Molecular Building Blocks of Structural Color To recreate nature’s vibrant structural colors, we investigate the lipids and proteins responsible for… Read more
Photonic Structural Materials with Controlled Disorder (ERC) Discovering hidden correlations in disordered photonic materials Read more
Radial Lasers from All-Polymer Spherical Microcavities We are pioneering a new class of low-threshold lasers by creating fully solution-processed, polymer-based… Read more
Self-assembly of Biomimetic Photonic Crystals Reveal the self-assembly process of photonic crystals in nature and their bio-inspired fabrication Read more
