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Reproducing the hierarchy of disorder for Morpho-inspired, broad-angle color reflection

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Authors

Song, B 
Johansen, VE 
Sigmund, O 
Shin, JH 

Abstract

The scales of Morpho butterflies are covered with intricate, hierarchical ridge structures that produce a bright, blue reflection that remains stable across wide viewing angles. This effect has been researched extensively, and much understanding has been achieved using modeling that has focused on the positional disorder among the identical, multilayered ridges as the critical factor for producing angular independent color. Realizing such positional disorder of identical nanostructures is difficult, which in turn has limited experimental verification of different physical mechanisms that have been proposed. In this paper, we suggest an alternative model of inter-structural disorder that can achieve the same broad-angle color reflection, and is applicable to wafer-scale fabrication using conventional thin film technologies. Fabrication of a thin film that produces pure, stable blue across a viewing angle of more than 120 ° is demonstrated, together with a robust, conformal color coating.

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Keywords

Animals, Butterflies, Color, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Pigmentation, Polymers, Xylenes

Journal Title

Scientific Reports

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Journal ISSN

2045-2322
2045-2322

Volume Title

7

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group
Sponsorship
This work was supported by Global Frontier Program (NRF-2014M3A6B3063708), GRL (K2081500000311A0500-00310) and by the Pioneer Research Center Program (2014M3C1A3052537) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, and by the Villum Foundation thorough the NextTop project.