Structural colours of nickel bioreplicas of butterfly wings

Tomas Tolenis; Stephen E. Swiontek; Akhlesh Lakhtakia

doi:10.1080/09500340.2015.1125961

Structural colours of nickel bioreplicas of butterfly wings

Tomas Tolenis
, Stephen E. Swiontek
, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Engineering Science and Mechanics

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	781-786
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Modern Optics
Volume	64
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2015.1125961
State	Published - Apr 28 2017

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Structural colours of nickel bioreplicas of butterfly wings

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