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SUMMARY:IMX Talks - From nonlinear photonic crystals to biomimetic structu
 ral color
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Viola V. Vogler-Neuling\, Soft Matter Physics Group\, Adol
 phe Merkle Institute\, University of Fribourg\nHave you ever marveled at t
 he breathtaking blue of a morpho butterfly's wings? This brilliant color i
 s the result of structural color\, a phenomenon that\, unlike pigment colo
 rs\, never fades and is even preserved in fossils. Its physical principle 
 is the photonic crystal\, which manipulates light through a periodic arran
 gement of materials (different dielectric constants).\nLearn how nature co
 nstructs these intricate three-dimensional photonic crystals and explore o
 ur research into recreating these vibrant colors with biological building 
 blocks. I will also tell you about our exciting progress in creating nonli
 near (second-harmonic generation) photonic crystals by infiltrating beetle
  scales with nonlinear sol-gel materials.\nJoin me on the journey to devel
 op sustainable\, brilliant\, and biodegradable photonic pigments and the d
 evelopment of three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystals towards entang
 led photon generation.\n\nBio: Viola Vogler-Neuling is a group leader in P
 rof. Steiner's Soft Matter Physics Group at the University of Fribourg. Sh
 e is leading the bioinspired photonics subgroup. She received her Ph.D. in
  Physics from ETH Zurich in 2022. Dr. Vogler-Neuling is a world-leading ex
 pert in the bottom-up nanofabrication of second-harmonic photonic crystals
  and metasurfaces. Driven by how nature can self-assemble highly complex t
 hree-dimensional photonic crystals\, Dr. Vogler-Neuling’s subgroup is de
 veloping biomimetic structural color from natural building blocks. Dr. Vog
 ler-Neuling has recently received an SNSF Spark grant and an NCCR Bioinspi
 red Materials Independence Grant to create photonic crystals from lipidic 
 lyotropic liquid crystals and to analyze the molecular building blocks tha
 t give rise to structural color formation.  
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