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Would you like to work with us? We are always interested in collaboration and hosting new people. We are based in the physics dept, within the NanoBioPhotonics research interest group, the Bath Institure for Sustainability and Climate Change and the Centre for Photonics. Our work is interdisciplinary. We collaborate with people in other research areas, universities, sectors and countries. We make plant-based discoveries about biological optical materials – including making new materials for ourselves. If you want to know more about the research, please get in touch. mailto: botanicphotonics@gmail.com

Structural colour, Sustainable chemistry, biological materials, nanophotonics

  • Structural color in fruits: Biomaterials to inspire physical optics

    Structural color in fruits: Biomaterials to inspire physical optics

    papers
  • Self-assembled, disordered structural color from fruit wax bloom

    Self-assembled, disordered structural color from fruit wax bloom

    papers
  • Using structural colour to track length scale of cell‐wall layers in developing Pollia japonica fruits

    Using structural colour to track length scale of cell‐wall layers in developing Pollia japonica fruits

    papers
  • Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits

    Cell wall composition determines handedness reversal in helicoidal cellulose architectures of Pollia condensata fruits

    papers
  • Viburnum tinus fruits use lipids to produce metallic blue structural color

    Viburnum tinus fruits use lipids to produce metallic blue structural color

    papers
  • Cusps, spouts and microfiber synthesis with microfluidics

    Cusps, spouts and microfiber synthesis with microfluidics

    papers
  • Near‐Field Electrospinning Patterning Polycaprolactone and Polycaprolactone/Collagen Interconnected Fiber Membrane

    Near‐Field Electrospinning Patterning Polycaprolactone and Polycaprolactone/Collagen Interconnected Fiber Membrane

    papers
  • Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films

    Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films

    papers
  • Disorder in convergent floral nanostructures enhances signalling to bees

    Disorder in convergent floral nanostructures enhances signalling to bees

    papers

This is the group website of the Botanic Photonics group at the University of Bath (UK), led by PI Dr Rox Middleton. We look at light’s interaction with the nanostructures in plants.

Would you like to work with us? We are always interested in collaboration and hosting new people. We are based in the physics dept, within the NanoBioPhotonics research interest group, and the Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials. Our work is interdisciplinary. We collaborate with people in other research areas, universities, sectors and countries. We make plant-based discoveries about biological optical materials – including making new materials for ourselves. If you want to know more about the research, please get in touch. mailto: botanicphotonics@gmail.com

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