Structure and optical function of amorphous photonic nanostructures from avian feather barbs: A comparative small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) analysis of 230 bird species

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 75, 2012, Pages 2563-2580

  Saranathan, Vinodkumar ^a,d,e   Forster, Jason D ^a,b   Noh, Heeso ^a,b   Liew, Seng Fatt ^a,b   Mochrie, Simon G J ^a,b   Cao, Hui ^a,b   Dufresne, Eric R ^a,b   Prum, Richard O ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LINACRE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amorphous nanostructures; Biophotonics; Non iridescence; Organismal structural colours; Self assembly; Single scattering

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; BIRDS; COLOR; CYTOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; SELF ASSEMBLY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAY SCATTERING;

AMORPHOUS NANOSTRUCTURES; BIO PHOTONICS; NON-IRIDESCENCE; SINGLE SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL COLOUR;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

BETA KERATIN; NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FEATHER; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PHASE SEPARATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECIES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AVES;

EID: 84866252621     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0191     Document Type: Article

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