Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies
| Autor: | Bodo D. Wilts, Villads Egede Johansen, Colin J. Ingham, Gianni Jacucci, Lukas Schertel, Laura Catón, Silvia Vignolini, Yu Ogawa, Gea T. van de Kerkhof |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Schertel, Lukas [0000-0003-0977-0389], van de Kerkhof, Gerda [0000-0003-2427-2740], Jacucci, Gianni [0000-0002-9156-0876], Vignolini, Silvia [0000-0003-0664-1418], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Nanostructure Materials science structural colour Biomedical Engineering Biophysics Bioengineering Nanotechnology 02 engineering and technology Biochemistry Biomaterials 03 medical and health sciences living optical material Photonic crystal Self-organization Bacteria business.industry Scattering Life Sciences–Physics interface 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Nanostructures 030104 developmental biology photonic crystals Order and disorder bacterial colonies Photonics 0210 nano-technology business Research Article Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of The Royal Society Interface Journal of the Royal Society Interface |
| DOI: | 10.17863/cam.51643 |
| Popis: | Vivid colours found in living organisms are often the result of scattering from hierarchical nanostructures, where the interplay between order and disorder in their packing defines visual appearance. In the case of Flavobacterium IR1, the complex arrangement of the cells in polycrystalline three-dimensional lattices is found to be a distinctive fingerprint of colony organization. By combining analytical analysis of the angle-resolved scattering response of in vivo bacterial colonies with numerical modelling, we show that we can assess the inter-cell distance and cell diameter with a resolution below 10 nm, far better than what can be achieved with conventional electron microscopy, suffering from preparation artefacts. Retrieving the role of disorder at different length scales from the salient features in the scattering response enables a precise understanding of the structural organization of the bacteria. © 2020 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. |
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