Extreme Refractive Index Wing Scale Beads Containing Dense Pterin Pigments Cause the Bright Colors of Pierid Butterflies

Bio-Inspired Structural Colors Produced via Self-Assembly of Synthetic Melanin Nanoparticles

(2015) Ming Xiao et al.   ACS Nano

Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales

(2015) Bodo D. Wilts et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

High refractive index of melanin in shiny occipital feathers of a bird of paradise

(2015) Doekele G Stavenga et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking

(2014) D. G. Stavenga et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Adaptive optics enhanced direct laser writing of high refractive index gyroid photonic crystals in chalcogenide glass

(2014) Benjamin P. Cumming et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

(2014) B. D. Wilts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bright White Scattering from Protein Spheres in Color Changing, Flexible Cuttlefish Skin

(2013) Lydia M. Mäthger et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Production of Colored Pigments with Amorphous Arrays of Black and White Colloidal Particles

(2013) Yukikazu Takeoka et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Quantifying the refractive index dispersion of a pigmented biological tissue using Jamin–Lebedeff interference microscopy

(2013) Doekele G Stavenga et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

(2012) Tomasz M. Trzeciak et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nanostructural self-assembly of iridescent feather barbules through depletion attraction of melanosomes during keratinization

(2011) R. Maia et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy

(2011) Hein L. Leertouwer et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Direct determination of the refractive index of natural multilayer systems

(2011) Shinya Yoshioka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Photonic nanoarchitectures in butterflies and beetles: valuable sources for bioinspiration

(2010) L.P. Biró et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Mechanisms and behavioural functions of structural coloration in cephalopods

(2008) L. M Mathger et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface