Self-assembled, disordered structural color from fruit wax bloom

R Middleton, SA Tunstad, A Knapp, S Winters… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Many visually guided frugivores have eyes highly adapted for blue sensitivity, which makes
it perhaps surprising that blue pigmented fruits are not more common. However, some fruits …

Multiple origins of lipid‐based structural colors contribute to a gradient of fruit colors in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)

MA Sinnott‐Armstrong, R Middleton, Y Ogawa… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Structural color is poorly known in plants relative to animals. In fruits, only a handful of cases
have been described, including in Viburnum tinus where the blue color results from a …

Living jewels: iterative evolution of iridescent blue leaves from helicoidal cell walls

CR Lundquist, PJ Rudall, RS Sukri… - Annals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Structural colour is responsible for the remarkable metallic
blue colour seen in the leaves of several plants. Species belonging to only ten genera have …

[HTML][HTML] Structural color in fruits: Biomaterials to inspire physical optics

R Middleton, M Sinnott-Armstrong - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This Tutorial introduces structural color in fruits as a phenomenon of diverse optical
materials. Originally best known in abiotic materials and animals, structural colors are being …

Phytochemical Profiles, in vitro Antioxidants, and Anti-inflammatory Activities of Flowers and Leaves of Lantana camara L. Grown in South of Tunisia

KB Othman, N Maaloul, S Nhidi, MM Cherif… - Periodica Polytechnica …, 2024 - pp.bme.hu
The current study assesses the photochemical profiles, the in vitro antioxidant (2, 2-diphenyl-
1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), 2, 2'-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)(ABTS) …