Chris E. Finlayson

TL;DR: A hybrid technology that integrates key aspects of both engineering disciplines is described, demonstrating the fabrication of tubes, solid nanowires, coaxial heterojunctions, and longitudinally patterned structures composed of metals, single-crystal semiconductors, and polycrystalline elemental or compound semiconductor within microstructured silica optical fibers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate silver nanoparticle substrates for SERS detection within MOF templates with exceptional temporal and mechanical stability, using organometallic precursors and a high-pressure chemical deposition technique.

TL;DR: It is shown how flexible films of stacked polymer nanoparticles can be directly assembled in a roll-to-roll process using a bending-induced oscillatory shear technique, which gives elastomeric photonic crystals termed polymer opals showing extremely strong tunable structural colour.

TL;DR: Femtosecond time of flight measurements based on a Kerr shutter configuration show that the group velocity dispersion is small at a wavelength of 800 nm, confirming that dispersion may be neglected in the estimation of n2 so that a simplified theory can be used with good accuracy.

TL;DR: An edge-induced rotational shearing process produces reproducible highly uniform samples with bulk-ordering of sub-micrometer components, greatly enhancing both the intensity and chromaticity of the observed structural color.