The counterfeiting of goods is growing worldwide, affecting practically any marketable item
ranging from consumer goods to human health. Anticounterfeiting is essential for …

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 …

Optical tweezers use the forces exerted by a strongly focused beam of light to trap and move
objects ranging in size from tens of nanometres to tens of micrometres. Since their …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

Millions of years before we began to manipulate the flow of light using synthetic structures,
biological systems were using nanometre-scale architectures to produce striking optical …

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 …

Coloring in nature mostly comes from the inherent colors of materials, but it sometimes has a
purely physical origin, such as diffraction or interference of light. The latter, called structural …

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 …

One cannot help being struck with wonder at the vivid pink of 10,000 flamingos rising from
Lake Nakuru or the glowing red gorget of a ruby-throated hummingbird feeding outside the …