Method for making silk inverse opal structure

Description:

The present invention relates to silk-based engineering of structural colors and encompasses the recognition that photonic crystals made from silk fibroin can be used to enhance a wide array of light-induced phenomena. Among other things, the present application provides evidence that silk-based photonic crystals can be combined with one or more functional components that are reactive to light stimulation and augment light-induced effects, including, for example, plasmonic resonance, photosensitive reactions, light emission by quantum dots and fluorescent entities, and so on.

US Patent 10,126,467 issued 11/13/2018 (14/363,216)