Spatially modulated structural colour in bird feathers

Spatially modulated structural colour in bird feathers

Abstract Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius) feathers display periodic variations in the reflected colour from white through light blue, dark blue and black. We find the structures responsible for the colour are continuous in their size and spatially controlled by the degree of spinodal phase separat...

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Main Authors: Andrew J. Parnell, Adam L. Washington, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk, Christopher J. Hill, Antonino Bianco, Stephanie L. Burg, Andrew J. C. Dennison, Mary Snape, Ashley J. Cadby, Andrew Smith, Sylvain Prevost, David M. Whittaker, Richard A. L. Jones, J. Patrick. A. Fairclough, Andrew R. Parker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2015-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep18317

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