• Colour

    enriches our lives

  • Colour

    is essential to major industries
    – paints, textiles and cosmetics –

  • Colour

    gives information

Hoekmine BV
creates vivid structural colours from
highly ordered bacteria

Structural colour offers a route to high-performance, sustainable colour.

This is an area where living systems exceed what we can currently fabricate.

These are used to create biomaterials and biosensors.