Structural coloration in nature

RSC Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14862-14889

  Sun, Jiyu ^a,b   Bhushan, Bharat ^b   Tong, Jin ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY WINGS; FABRICATION METHOD; HALIOTIS; MULTI FILMS; SIGNAL COMMUNICATION; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

COHERENT SCATTERING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COLOR;

EID: 84881580659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra41096j     Document Type: Review

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