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Mathias Kolle
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 92
Citations - 4273
Mathias Kolle is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Photonic crystal & Structural coloration. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 90 publications receiving 3412 citations. Previous affiliations of Mathias Kolle include Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering & University of Exeter.
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Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly
Mathias Kolle,Pedro M. Salgard-Cunha,Maik R. J. Scherer,Fumin Huang,Peter Vukusic,Sumeet Mahajan,Jeremy J. Baumberg,Ullrich Steiner +7 more
TL;DR: This work uses a combination of layer deposition techniques, including colloidal self-assembly, sputtering and atomic layer deposition, to fabricate photonic structures that mimic the colour mixing effect found on the wings of the Indonesian butterfly Papilio blumei and shows that a conceptual variation to the natural structure leads to enhanced optical properties.
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Floral iridescence, produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators.
Heather M. Whitney,Mathias Kolle,Piers Andrew,Lars Chittka,Ullrich Steiner,Beverley J. Glover +5 more
TL;DR: It is found that bumblebees learn to disentangle flower iridescence from color and correctly identify iridescent flowers despite their continuously changing appearance in the absence of cues from polarized light or ultraviolet reflectance associated with diffraction gratings.
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Encoding Complex Wettability Patterns in Chemically Functionalized 3D Photonic Crystals
Ian B. Burgess,Lidiya Mishchenko,Benjamin Hatton,Mathias Kolle,Marko Loncar,Joanna Aizenberg +5 more
TL;DR: A technique for patterning multiple chemical functionalities throughout the inner surfaces of three-dimensional (3D) porous structures using a highly ordered 3D photonic crystal as a regionally functionalized porous carrier to generate complex wettability patterns.
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Color from hierarchy: Diverse optical properties of micron-sized spherical colloidal assemblies.
Nicolas Vogel,Nicolas Vogel,Stefanie Utech,Grant T. England,Tanya Shirman,Katherine R. Phillips,Natalie Koay,Ian B. Burgess,Mathias Kolle,David A. Weitz,Joanna Aizenberg +10 more
TL;DR: The control of multiple optical effects induced by the hierarchical morphology in photonic balls paves the way to use them as building blocks for complex optical assemblies—potentially as more efficient mimics of structural color as it occurs in nature.
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Bio-Inspired Band-Gap Tunable Elastic Optical Multilayer Fibers
Mathias Kolle,Lethbridge Alfred J,Moritz Kreysing,Jeremy Jj Baumberg,Joanna Aizenberg,Peter Vukusic +5 more
TL;DR: The concentrically-layered photonic structure found in the tropical fruit Margaritaria nobilis serves as inspiration for photonic fibers with mechanically tunable band-gap that show the spectral filtering capabilities of a planar Bragg stack while the microscopic curvature decreases the strong directional chromaticity associated with flat multilayers.