Light Transport: Anisotropic Light Transport in White Beetle Scales (Advanced Optical Materials 10/2015)
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Abstract
The nanostructured complex chitin network inside Cyphochilus white beetle scales is responsible for their exceptional bright whiteness. On page 1337, L. Cortese, D. S. Wiersma, and co-workers show how, despite their low refractive index and extremely low thickness (around 7 micrometers), the scales reflect diffusively more than 70% of incident light. Such high reflectance is obtained by taking advantage of the optimized structural anisotropy of the chitin network. In this image a particular of the interior of two dissected scales is shown.
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Affiliations
European Laboratory for Non‐linear Spectroscopy (LENS) Università di Firenze Via Nello Carrara 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy
Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge Lensfield Road Cambridge CB2 1EW UK
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (CNR‐INO) Largo Fermi 6 50125 Firenze (FI) Italy
Department of Physics Università di Firenze Via Sansone 1 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy
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