Investigations on color variations of Morpho rhetenor butterfly wing scales

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 394-400

  Liao, Guanglan ^a   Zuo, Haibo ^a   Jiang, Xuan ^a   Yang, Xuefeng ^a   Shi, Tielin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

ambient medium; color variations; microstructures; Morpho rhetenor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876565128     PISSN: 20950233     EISSN: 20950241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11465-012-0347-y     Document Type: Article

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