Burg, S. and Parnell, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-8606-8644 (2018) Self-assembling structural colour in nature. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 30 (41). 413001. ISSN 0953-8984
Abstract
The diversity and vividness of structural colour in the natural world has been recognised as far back as William Hooke in the 17th century. Whilst it is only recently that advances in the field have revealed the elegance and finesse of the physics used to create these effects. In this topical review we will highlight some of the structures and effects responsible for colour in butterfly scales, bird feathers, plants, insects and beetle elytra that have been studied to date. We will discuss the structures responsible and look at similarities and differences in these structures between species. This will be alongside our current understanding of how these are created biologically, how they develop structurally and what control mechanisms nature has at its disposal to control structure formation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI |
Keywords: | bioinspired; biomimetics; phase separation; photonics; self assembly; structural colour |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2018 09:44 |
Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2024 11:06 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1361-648X/aadc95 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135421 |
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