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Three-Dimensional Network Photonic Crystals via Cyclic Size Reduction/ Infiltration of Sea Urchin Exoskeleton†

  1. Y.-H. Ha1,
  2. R. A. Vaia2,
  3. W. F. Lynn3,
  4. J. P. Costantino2,
  5. J. Shin4,
  6. A. B. Smith5,
  7. P. T. Matsudaira6,
  8. E. L. Thomas

Article first published online: 3 JUN 2004

DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400131

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 16, Issue 13, pages 1091–1094, July, 2004

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Ha, Y.-H., Vaia, R., Lynn, W., Costantino, J., Shin, J., Smith, A., Matsudaira, P. and Thomas, E. (2004), Three-Dimensional Network Photonic Crystals via Cyclic Size Reduction/ Infiltration of Sea Urchin Exoskeleton. Advanced Materials, 16: 1091–1094. doi: 10.1002/adma.200400131

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  2. 2

    Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USA

  3. 3

    Veridian Engineering, Dayton, OH 45431, USA

  4. 4

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  5. 5

    Department of Paleontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, UK

  6. 6

    Department of Biology and Division of Biological Engineering, MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

  1. †

    We gratefully acknowledge J. Murry for the hot isostatic pressing, T. Deng for inspiration and helpful discussions, S. Juhl for SEM, J. C. Jafolla (Surface Optics Corp.) for directional reflectivity measurements, L. Carr (BNL) for some early IR measurement attempts, and S. Johnson for the MPB package and for helpful suggestions about the simulation work. This research was supported in part by the Dupont–MIT Alliance and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 21 JUL 2004
  2. Article first published online: 3 JUN 2004
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 25 MAR 2004
  4. Manuscript Received: 28 JAN 2004

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Keywords:

  • Biological templates;
  • Dielectric constant;
  • Photonic crystals

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A reduction and infiltration process for a naturally occurring 3D bicontinuous structure is demonstrated. A sea urchin exoskeleton can be engineered in a top–down fashion to create low absorption, high dielectric contrast photonic crystals with a stop band in the mid-IR regime. The Figure shows a sample cut in half where one half (right) has been pyrolyzed, demonstrating the excellent structural fidelity of the replication-reduction process.

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