Wrinkle nanostructures generate a novel form of blue structural color in great argus flight feathers
Summary: 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....
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-01-01
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Series: | iScience |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422202185X |