Learning from Marine Creatures How to Design Micro-Lenses

Multidisciplinary groups involving materials scientists, chemists, physicists, biologists work togehter trying to understand the mechanisms controlling the formation of elaborate structure of biological minerals. We believe that further studies of biological systems will increase our understanding of how organisms evolved their sophisticated optical structures for survival and adaptation and will provide additional materials concepts and design solutions. Ultimately, these biological principles will improve our current capabilities to fabricate optical elements and contribute to the construction of novel, adaptive, micro-scale optical devices.