Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor

Multilayer structures are known to produce vivid iridescent colouration in many butterflies. Morpho butterflies are well known for their high reflectance, which appears to remain high over a wide range of viewing angles. Thus these butterflies have served as the inspiration for sensing materials. Us...

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Autores principales: Wang, Wanlin, Zhang, Wang, Fang, Xiaotian, Huang, Yiqiao, Liu, Qinglei, Gu, Jiajun, Zhang, Di
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24998707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05591
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author Wang, Wanlin
Zhang, Wang
Fang, Xiaotian
Huang, Yiqiao
Liu, Qinglei
Gu, Jiajun
Zhang, Di
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Zhang, Wang
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Liu, Qinglei
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Zhang, Di
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description Multilayer structures are known to produce vivid iridescent colouration in many butterflies. Morpho butterflies are well known for their high reflectance, which appears to remain high over a wide range of viewing angles. Thus these butterflies have served as the inspiration for sensing materials. Using microscopic images and videos, we visually demonstrate that the colour response with ambient refractive index of Papilio blumei is better than that of Morpho rhetenor. This result was also verified using measurements of the reflectance for different viewing angles. The finite-difference time-domain method was then used to simulate the microscopic pictures and reflections. Finally, the relationships between the structure, ambient refractive index, reflection and viewing angle are discussed in detail.
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spelling pubmed-40832782014-07-08 Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor Wang, Wanlin Zhang, Wang Fang, Xiaotian Huang, Yiqiao Liu, Qinglei Gu, Jiajun Zhang, Di Sci Rep Article Multilayer structures are known to produce vivid iridescent colouration in many butterflies. Morpho butterflies are well known for their high reflectance, which appears to remain high over a wide range of viewing angles. Thus these butterflies have served as the inspiration for sensing materials. Using microscopic images and videos, we visually demonstrate that the colour response with ambient refractive index of Papilio blumei is better than that of Morpho rhetenor. This result was also verified using measurements of the reflectance for different viewing angles. The finite-difference time-domain method was then used to simulate the microscopic pictures and reflections. Finally, the relationships between the structure, ambient refractive index, reflection and viewing angle are discussed in detail. Nature Publishing Group 2014-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4083278/ /pubmed/24998707 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05591 Text en Copyright © 2014, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder in order to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor
title_full Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor
title_fullStr Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor
title_full_unstemmed Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor
title_short Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor
title_sort demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in papilio blumei as compared to morpho rhetenor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4083278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24998707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05591
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