Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers
Abstract
Vivid, saturated structural colors are conspicuous and important features of many animals. A rich diversity of three-dimensional periodic photonic nanostructures is found in the chitinaceous exoskeletons of invertebrates. Three-dimensional photonic nanostructures have been described in bird feathers, but they are typically quasi-ordered. Here, we report bicontinuous single gyroid beta-keratin and air photonic crystal networks in the feather barbs of blue-winged leafbirds (Chloropsis cochinchinensis sensu lato), which have evolved from ancestral quasi-ordered channel-type nanostructures. Self-assembled avian photonic crystals may serve as inspiration for multifunctional applications, as they suggest efficient, alternative routes to single gyroid synthesis at optical length scales, which has been experimentally elusive.
- Authors:
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- National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore). Yale-NUS College. Division of Science; Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Peabody Museum of Natural History
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland). Dept. of Materials
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Peabody Museum of Natural History
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Royal Society United Kingdom
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1815624
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1832176
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; biophotonic nanostructure; self-assembly; single gyroid; phase separation; bird coloration
Citation Formats
Saranathan, Vinodkumar, Narayanan, Suresh, Sandy, Alec, Dufresne, Eric R., and Prum, Richard O. Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.2101357118.
Saranathan, Vinodkumar, Narayanan, Suresh, Sandy, Alec, Dufresne, Eric R., & Prum, Richard O. Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101357118
Saranathan, Vinodkumar, Narayanan, Suresh, Sandy, Alec, Dufresne, Eric R., and Prum, Richard O. Tue .
"Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101357118. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1815624.
@article{osti_1815624,
title = {Evolution of single gyroid photonic crystals in bird feathers},
author = {Saranathan, Vinodkumar and Narayanan, Suresh and Sandy, Alec and Dufresne, Eric R. and Prum, Richard O.},
abstractNote = {Vivid, saturated structural colors are conspicuous and important features of many animals. A rich diversity of three-dimensional periodic photonic nanostructures is found in the chitinaceous exoskeletons of invertebrates. Three-dimensional photonic nanostructures have been described in bird feathers, but they are typically quasi-ordered. Here, we report bicontinuous single gyroid beta-keratin and air photonic crystal networks in the feather barbs of blue-winged leafbirds (Chloropsis cochinchinensis sensu lato), which have evolved from ancestral quasi-ordered channel-type nanostructures. Self-assembled avian photonic crystals may serve as inspiration for multifunctional applications, as they suggest efficient, alternative routes to single gyroid synthesis at optical length scales, which has been experimentally elusive.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2101357118},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 23,
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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