Structural colors: from natural to artificial systems

作者：Yuxiang Fu, C.A. Tippets, E.U. Donev, R. Lopez · 发表于：Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.17615/0x59-aj90 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Color perception and design、Color Science and Applications

Structural coloration has attracted great interest from scientists and engineers in recent years, owing to fascination with various brilliant examples displayed in nature as well as to promising applications of bio-inspired functional photonic structures and materials. Much research has been done to reveal and emulate the physical mechanisms that underlie the structural colors found in nature. In this article, we review the fundamental physics of many natural structural colors displayed by living organisms as well as their bio-inspired artificial counterparts, with emphasis on their connections, tunability strategies, and proposed applications, which aim to maximize the technological benefits one could derive from these photonic nanostructures. WIREs Nanomed Nanobiotechnol 2016, 8:758–775. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1396. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.