Nature began developing photonic nanoarchitectures millions of years before humankind.
Often, in the living world, color is a communication channel that may influence the chance of …

While typically classified as either 'structural'or 'pigmentary', bio-optical tissues of terrestrial
animals are rarely homogeneous and typically contain both a structural material such as …

Iridescent butterfly scales are visually stunning structures that reflect highly saturated colour.
They also create an array of non-chromatic optical phenomena, such as polarization …

Colloidal crystal films with a special FCC structure and tough mechanical strength were
simply fabricated using latex spheres with a hard PS core and an elastometric PMMA/PAA …

A small but growing literature indicates that many animal colours are produced by
combinations of structural and pigmentary mechanisms. We investigated one such complex …

Structural coloration is common among animals that produce sexual displays involving
motion or ultraviolet reflection. Different sources of colour may provide multicomponent …

The environmentally friendly dyeing of textiles combining regular photonic crystals (PCs)
has shown remarkable promise for application. However, the surface is rough and …

Many of nature's most striking animal colours are iridescent, exhibiting a high degree of
spectral purity and strong angular dependence of intensity and hue. Although a growing …

Traditional contact lenses patterns are mostly colored with organic pigments, but they
suffered a pigment leakage risk after long-term wearing, which causes corneal inflammation …

In many Coleoptera, iridescent colouration is generated by exoskeleton ultra‐structure,
within which multilayer interference reflects only certain wavelengths. Published work …