Structural Diversity with Varying Disorder Enables the Multicolored Display in the Longhorn Beetle Sulawesiella rafaelae

Summary: Light control through layered photonic nanostructures enables the strikingly colored displays of many beetles, birds, and butterflies. To achieve different reflected colors, natural organisms mainly rely on refractive index variations or scaling of a fixed structure design, as opposed to va...

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Main Authors: Esteban Bermúdez-Ureña, Cédric Kilchoer, Nathan P. Lord, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo D. Wilts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220305265