Photonic crystals in biology - NanoTR-VI

PPoster Session, Thursday, June 17Theme F686 - N11231Nanostructures of Nature & Insecta1UAysel KekilliogluUP P*PKrkkale University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Yahihan, 71450, Krkkale TurkeyAbstract-Nanotechnology is the production and use of materials with purposely engineered features close to the atomic or molecular scale.Nanotechnology deals with putting things together atom by atom and with structures so small they are invisible to the naked eye. It providesthe ability to create materials, devices and systems with fundamentally new functions and properties. As materials at the nanoscale oftenexhibit very different physical, chemical, and biological properties than their normal size counterparts, for many decades, nanotechnologyhas been developed with cooperation from researchers in several fields of studies including physics, chemistry, biology, material science,engineering, and computer science which is originally learned from nature. For instance, Some researchers have reported a cheap andeffective way to print nanoscale structures onto surfaces: they use stamps created from the delicately patterned wings of cicadas. Cicadasare not the only insects with nanostructures on their wings. In nature, the researchers explained, patterns on the nanometre scale abound:butterflies' iridescent colours arise from tiny pillared structures which scatter light; lotus plants repel water because of nanometre-sized waxcrystals on their surface. This study, examines the current phenomenon of rapidly increasing nanotechnology in natural world withnanostructures that teaches mankind a lot within the context of especially Insecta.*Corresponding author: akekillioglu@hotmail.com6th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference, zmir, 2010 814