Papers

• A. R. Parker, R. C. McPhedran, D. R. McKenzie, L. C. Botten and N. A. Nicorovici,
  Photonic engineering: Aphrodite's iridescence,
  Nature 409, 36-37 (2001).
• R. C. McPhedran, N. A. Nicorovici, D. R. McKenzie, L. C. Botten, A. R. Parker and G. W. Rouse,
  The Sea Mouse and the Photonic Crystal,
  Aust. J. Chem. 54, 241-244 (2001).
• R. C. McPhedran, N. A. Nicorovici and L. C. Botten,
  Learning Optics in Nature's School,
  Aust. Opt. Soc. NEWS, 15 (No. 2/3), 7-9 (2001).
• R. C. McPhedran, N. A. Nicorovici, D. R. McKenzie, G. Rouse, M. Large, L. C. Botten, A. Parker, V. Welch, V. Vardeny and M. Wohlgennant,
  Structural Colours through Photonic Crystals,
  Sixth International Conference on the Electrical Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM 6),
  Snowbird, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 15 - 19, 2002.
  Paper in the Proceedings

Press Clippings

• Sea mouse promises bright future  (BBC News Online, January 03, 2001, Section: Sci/Tech)
  
• Spiny worm shines light on fibre optics  (Electronic Telegraph, January 04, 2001)
  
• A Worm Ahead of Its Time  (The New York Times, January 09, 2001, Section: Science)
  
• Electric mover  (Guernsey Press, January 20, 2001, Section: Features/Marine Matters)
  
• Sea creatures light the way to new technology  (BLUEPRINT, The newsletter of the University of Oxford, February 01, 2001, p.5)
  
• Deep sea worm helps to shed light on optic communications technology  (The University of Sydney News, February 23, 2001)
  
• Glow worm  (Physics World, February 2001, Section: Post-Deadline, p.3)
  
• Sea mouse furthers communication technologies  (La médiathèque de NAUSICAA, 23 March 2001, Section: Men's Ocean/Optical Fibre)
  
• Hairy Worm Wears Photonic Crystals  (Photonics Spectra, March 2001, p.28)
  
• Crystal Spines: A Fuzzy Marine Worm is on the Cutting Edge of Physics  (DISCOVER, 22/3, March 2001)
  
• Of sea mice and photonic crystals  (Biophotonics International, March 2001, Section: Biophotonics in Practice, p.34)
  
• Sea mouse  (Scientriffic 13, May/June 2001, p.9)
  
• Schnellere Kommunikation: Tiefseewurm bringt Datentransport auf Trab  (P.M. Magazin, 07/2001,  Wissenschaft aktuell, S.49)
  
• A “mouse” of many colours  (Australian Geographic, 65, 21, Jan-Mar 2002)
  
• Seeing the Future in Photonic Crystals  (The Industrial Physicist, 7/6, 14, Dec 2001/Jan 2002)
  
• A Natural Photonic Crystal  (The Science Foundation for Physics; 2001 Annual Report, 2002, p.14)
  
• Transmissione dati attraverso fibre ottiche:  Fibre naturali
  
• Structural Colors in Nature & Butterfly-Wing Modelling  (Optics & Photonics News, 14, 38-43, 2003)
  
• Jellyfish shine the way for human progress  (The Sydney Morning Herald, February 9, 2004)
  
• Trapping the fantastic light  (The Guardian, April 1, 2004)
  

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