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Yafeng Zhang1, Biqin Dong1, Ang Chen1
1Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (MOE) and Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Abstract:
Non-iridescent structural colors of high color visibility are produced by amorphous photonic structures, in which -natural cuttlefish ink is used as an additive to break down the long-range order of the structures. The color hue and its spectral purity can be tuned by adjusting the diameter of the polystyrene (PS) spheres and the proportion of ink particles.
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