Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder

TL;DR: A set of biocompatible, biodegradable, and biofunctionalizable diffractive optical elements (DOEs) using silk proteins as the building materials is reported.

TL;DR: In this article, electron-regulated nanoscale polymorphic transitions in silk proteins revealed by near-field infrared imaging and nano-spectroscopy at resolutions approaching the molecular level were investigated.

TL;DR: A nano-imaging technique is developed to determine the in-plane and out-of-plane components of the anisotropic dielectric tensors in MoS2 and hBN, two representative van der Waals crystals, revealing a universal route for characterizing low-dimensional crystals with high anisotropies.

TL;DR: Versatile imaging capabilities are presented, including unambiguous identification of concealed substances with intrinsic and/or human‐engineered THz characteristics as well as effective diagnosis of cancerous tissues without notable spectral signatures in the THz range, underscoring the utility of applying multispectral approaches in this compelling wavelength range for sensing/identification and medical imaging.

TL;DR: This approach provides a facile method for patterning and immobilizing functional molecules within nanoscopic, hierarchical protein structures, which sheds light on a wide range of biomedical applications such as structure‐enhanced fluorescence and biomimetic microenvironments for controlling cell fate.