Chitin is one of the most abundant biopolymers, and it has adopted many different structural
conformations using a combination of different natural processes like biopolymerization …

Nature's color has three main sources: pigments, structural colors and bioluminescence.
Structural color is a special one, which is the color produced by micro-or nano-structures …

The extraordinary properties of biological materials often result from their sophisticated
hierarchical structures. Through multilevel and cross-scale structural designs, biological …

In recent years, structural colors have attracted great attention in a wide variety of research
fields. This is because they are originated from complex interaction between light and …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201501936 interactions among spheres have been proposed. For dried
colloidal APSs, self-assembling two different-sized spheres was proposed.[22, 38] In the …

Members of the order Coleoptera are sometimes referred to as 'living jewels', in allusion to
the strikingly diverse array of iridescence mechanisms and optical effects that have arisen in …

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 …

Structural colorations originate from self-organized microstructures, which interact with light
in a complex way to produce brilliant colors seen everywhere in nature. Research in this …

Controlling the flux of photons is crucial in many areas of science and technology. Artificial
materials with nano-scale modulation of the refractive index, such as photonic crystals, are …

A novel approach for creating non-iridescent bright structural color materials from
polydopamine (PDA) black particles is presented. Two biomimetic features, melanin …