TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural colours of nickel bioreplicas of butterfly wings
AU - Tolenis, Tomas
AU - Swiontek, Stephen E.
AU - Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/4/28
Y1 - 2017/4/28
N2 - The two-angle conformally evaporated-film-by-rotation technique (TA-CEFR) was devised to coat the wings of the monarch butterfly with nickel in order to form a 500-nm thick bioreplica thereof. The bioreplica exhibits structural colours that are completely obscured in actual wings by pigmental colours. Thus, the TA-CEFR technique provides a way to replicate, study and exploit hidden morphologies of biological surfaces.
AB - The two-angle conformally evaporated-film-by-rotation technique (TA-CEFR) was devised to coat the wings of the monarch butterfly with nickel in order to form a 500-nm thick bioreplica thereof. The bioreplica exhibits structural colours that are completely obscured in actual wings by pigmental colours. Thus, the TA-CEFR technique provides a way to replicate, study and exploit hidden morphologies of biological surfaces.
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U2 - 10.1080/09500340.2015.1125961
DO - 10.1080/09500340.2015.1125961
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84952663359
SN - 0950-0340
VL - 64
SP - 781
EP - 786
JO - Journal of Modern Optics
JF - Journal of Modern Optics
IS - 8
ER -