Biometamaterials: Black Ultrathin Gold Film Fabricated on Lotus Leaf.

ABSTRACT: We report on a black metamaterial of gold fabricated on a lotus leaf that was used as a template. In spite of the extremely thin gold coating (10-nm thick) on the lotus leaf, the surface shows reflectivity below 0.01 over the entire visible spectral range. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) calculations suggest that the low reflectivity stems from the secondary structures on the lotus leaf, where randomly oriented nanorods are distributed.

SUBMITTER: Ebihara Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4632130 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature