Development of a High‐Performance, Anti‐Fouling Optical Diffuser Inspired by Morpho Butterfly's Nanostructure. Advanced Optical Materials , 2023; DOI: 10.1002/adom.202301086 Cite This Page : ...

By replicating the biotemplate of butterfly wings, researchers hope to be able to make various optically active structures, such as optical diffusers or coverings that maximize solar cell absorption.

Better than a butterfly: a new optical metamaterial outperforms the Callophrys rubi. (CC BY-SA Charlesjsharp) An artificial material with the eye-catching optical properties of the Callophrys rubi ...

A team of physicists that visualized the internal nanostructure of an intact butterfly wing has discovered two physical attributes that make those structures so bright and colorful.

The Tatama air purifier from Metalmark is inspired by the nanostructure of butterfly wings and organisms like the self-cleaning lotus flower. The results? Beyond HEPA-grade filtration, the startup ...

By doping Morpho butterfly scales with single-walled carbon nanotubes, ... (Fig. 1c,d) leads to an increase in the MWIR absorption cross-section of the Morpho butterfly nanostructure.

Unlocking the nanostructure of butterfly wings also holds promise in other areas. As we reported last year, researchers hope to develop various optically-active structures, ...

A chicken eggshell has a tricky job: It must protect a developing chick, but then ultimately let the chick break free. The secret to its success lies in its complex nanostructure — and how that ...

Ask a social butterfly where she got that great dress, ... "The nanostructure of the chitin, or wing scale," Prudic says, "affects what light is reflected and how it's reflected." ...

All the butterfly has to do to create its nanostructures is to combine some proteins together. Due to chemical interactions, those proteins automatically form into the right nanostructure.

Microscopic images of butterfly wings showed that the surface of some scales, ... Images: 1. Wing scale photonic nanostructure, from electron micorscope to model./PNAS. 2.

Oct 12, 2023: Morpho butterfly nanostructure inspires technology for bright, balanced lighting (Nanowerk News) As you watch Morpho butterflies wobble in flight, shimmering in vivid blue color, you’re ...