Through 3.7 billion years of evolution and natural selection, plants and animals in nature
have ingeniously fulfilled a broad range of fascinating functions to achieve optimized …

Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and
mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems …

Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with
multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration …

Nature's color has three main sources: pigments, structural colors and bioluminescence.
Structural color is a special one, which is the color produced by micro-or nano-structures …

One property of sulfated cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is their ability to self-assemble from
a concentrated suspension under specific drying conditions into an iridescent film. Such …

Multiresponsive elastic poly (methyl methacrylate‐butyl acrylate)(P (MMA‐BA)) copolymer
nanoparticles with controlled sizes are fabricated through a one‐step method, which further …

Natural creatures have evolved elaborate photonic nanostructures on multiple scales and
dimensions in a hierarchical, organized way to realize controllable absorption, reflection, or …

The avian plumage color gamut is the complete range of plumage colors, as seen by birds
themselves. We used a tetrahedral avian color stimulus space to estimate the avian …

The outer layers of a range of plant tissues, including flower petals, leaves and fruits, exhibit
an intriguing variation of microscopic structures. Some of these structures include ordered …

Enhanced light harvesting is an area of interest for optimizing both natural photosynthesis
and artificial solar energy capture 1, 2. Iridescence has been shown to exist widely and in …