Refractive indices of chitin, chitosan, and uric acid with application to structural color analysis;Índices de refracción de la quitina, el quitosano y el ácido úrico con aplicación en análisis de color estructural

Optica Pura y Aplicada

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-72

  Vargas, William E ^a   Azofeifa, Daniel E ^a   Arguedas, Humberto J ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Biopolymers; Extinction coefficient; Multilayers; Refractive index; Structural color

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877658551     PISSN: 00303917     EISSN: 21718814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7149/OPA.46.1.55     Document Type: Article

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