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Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration

Soft Condensed Matter 2025-06-18 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We describe the self-assembly of biomimetic isotropic films which display structural color amenable to potential applications in coatings. Isotropic structures can produce color if there is a pronounced characteristic length-scale comparable to the wavelength of visible light and wavelength-independent scattering is suppressed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0912.4290,
  title  = {Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration},
  author = {Jason D. Forster and Heeso Noh and Seng Fatt Liew and Vinodkumar Saranathan and Carl F. Schreck and Lin Yang and Jin-Gyu Park and Richard O. Prum and Corey S. O'Hern and Simon G. J. Mochrie and Hui Cao and Eric R. Dufresne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4290},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures

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