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Ordered Ceramic Microstructures from Butterfly Bio‐template
Author(s) -
Li Bo,
Zhou Ji,
Zong Ruilong,
Fu Ming,
Bai Yang,
Li Longtu,
Li Qi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2006.00978.x
Subject(s) - template , materials science , ceramic , microstructure , nanotechnology , lead zirconate titanate , lithography , micrometer , photonic crystal , template method pattern , optoelectronics , composite material , optics , ferroelectricity , dielectric , physics
Ordered lead lanthanum zirconate titanate (PLZT) structures with micrometer and submicrometer periods were created by an impressing sol–gel process, in which PLZT was used as the ceramic precursor and various butterfly wings were used as biological templates. It is a simple, inexpensive, and lithography‐free method for fabricating two‐dimensional‐ordered microstructures using natural biological templates, which can be used to study the periodic submicrometer dimension effect and photonic bandgap property of functional ceramics.