Preface ....................................................... vii
Contributors ................................................. xiii
1 Photonic Structures in Plants ................................ 1
Silvia Vignolini, Beverley Glover, and Ullrich Steiner
2 Biomineralization and Photonics ............................. 19
Thomas Fuhrmann-Lieker
3 Biomimetics of Optical Nanostructures ....................... 55
Andrew R. Parker, Torben Lenau, and Akira Saito
4 Photomechanic IR Receptors in Pyrophilous Beetles and
Bugs ....................................................... 117
Herbert Bousack, Helmut Budzier, Gerald Gerlach, and
Helmut Schmitz
5 Toward Industrial Production of Biomimetic Photonic
Structures ................................................. 141
Hiroshi Fudouzi, Tsutomu Sawada, and Yoshihiro Uozu
6 A Night Vision Algorithm Inspired by the Visual System of
a Nocturnal Bee ............................................ 165
Eric Warrant, Magnus Oskarsson, and Henrik Malm
7 Modeling and Simulation of Structural Colors ............... 191
Shuichi Kinoshita, Dong Zhu, and Akira Saito
Index ......................................................... 243
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