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This issue Cover story Vol.6 No.7 July 2007 Reflectins are proteins that squids use to make reflective structures. Their function is probably related to camouflage or communication. The fact that they form complex photonic structures, which are not static but can be modulated by the squid, has attracted the interest of materials scientists. Rajesh Naik and colleagues have expressed the gene of a reflectin in a bacterium capable of producing large quantities of this protein so that, once purified, its peculiar optical and self-assembly properties could be revealed. They then used this knowledge to make fibres and diffraction gratings out of the protein, highlighting the extraordinary opportunities that lie in transferring materials from biology to technology. The authors hope that the ability of reflectin to self-organize into gratings that are defect-free over long distances could enable their use in bottom-up fabrication of photonic-crystal devices. [Article p533] SELECTIVE ZEOLITES nanoclusters, or quantum dots, within Moreover, theoretical principles associated Metal-organic frameworks based on a GaMnAs specimen, which distort the with SiC fullerene-like clusters should lead imidazolates exhibit thermal and chemical lattice, inducing strain over a range of a to nanostructured materials with exceptional stability and are promising porous materials few tens of nanometres. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

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Cover story Vol.6 No.7 July 2007 Reflectins are proteins that squids use to make reflective structures. Their function is probably related to camouflage or communication. The fact that they form complex photonic structures, which are not static but can be modulated by the squid, has attracted the interest of materials scientists. Rajesh Naik and colleagues have expressed the gene of a reflectin in a bacterium capable of producing large quantities of this protein so that, once purified, its...
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Copyright © 2007 by Nature Publishing Group
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Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
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10.1038/nmat1958
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Cover story Vol.6 No.7 July 2007 Reflectins are proteins that squids use to make reflective structures. Their function is probably related to camouflage or communication. The fact that they form complex photonic structures, which are not static but can be modulated by the squid, has attracted the interest of materials scientists. Rajesh Naik and colleagues have expressed the gene of a reflectin in a bacterium capable of producing large quantities of this protein so that, once purified, its peculiar optical and self-assembly properties could be revealed. They then used this knowledge to make fibres and diffraction gratings out of the protein, highlighting the extraordinary opportunities that lie in transferring materials from biology to technology. The authors hope that the ability of reflectin to self-organize into gratings that are defect-free over long distances could enable their use in bottom-up fabrication of photonic-crystal devices. [Article p533] SELECTIVE ZEOLITES nanoclusters, or quantum dots, within Moreover, theoretical principles associated Metal-organic frameworks based on a GaMnAs specimen, which distort the with SiC fullerene-like clusters should lead imidazolates exhibit thermal and chemical lattice, inducing strain over a range of a to nanostructured materials with exceptional stability and are promising porous materials few tens of nanometres.

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