Spider silk: Mother Nature’s bio-superlens

It was recently discovered that transparent micro-spheres and cylinders can function as super-resolution lens (i.e superlens) to focus light beyond the diffraction limit. A number of high-resolution applications based on these lenses have been successfully demonstrated and span nanoscopy, imaging an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Monk, J, Yan, B, Hawkins, N, Vollrath, F, Wang, Z
Format: Journal article
Published: American Chemical Society 2016