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Published on: May 20, 2013
Flexible, angle-independent, structural color reflectors inspired by morpho butterfly wings
Kyungjae Chung1, Sunkyu Yu, Chul-Joon Heo
1Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 335 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, South Korea.
Abstract:
Thin-film color reflectors inspired by Morpho butterflies are fabricated. Using a combination of directional deposition, silica microspheres with a wide size distribution, and a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) encasing, a large, flexible reflector is created that actually provides better angle-independent color characteristics than Morpho butterflies and which can even be bent and folded freely without losing its Morpho-mimetic photonic properties.

