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Wrinkle nanostructures generate a novel form of blue structural color in great argus flight feathers

Currently known structural colors in feathers are caused by light scattering from periodic or amorphous arrangements of keratin, melanin, and air within barbs and barbules that comprise the feather vane. Structural coloration in the largest part of the feather, the central rachis, is rare. Here, we...

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Autores principales: Eliason, Chad M., Clarke, Julia A., Kane, Suzanne Amador
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36691618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105912