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Photonic structure arrays generated using butterfly wing scales as biological units
Xinchun Tian1, Guofen Song, Xiang Ding
1State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd., Shanghai 200240, P. R. China. gujiajun@sjtu.edu.cn zhangdi@sjtu.edu.cn.
Journal of Materials Chemistry. B
|April 9, 2020
Abstract:
We report an effective process to transfer the scales of Morpho butterflies onto various substrates. Based on the difference in binding strength between molecular interactions and chemical bonds, this method provides photonic structure arrays with biological units, which are difficult to obtain otherwise.
