<i>Advanced Optical Materials</i> Cover, January 2017 (IMAGE)

University of Akron

<i>Advanced Optical Materials</i> Cover, January 2017

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Inspired by the hair of blue tarantulas, B.-K. Hsiung and co-workers made a highly periodic structural-colored material that shows consistent color from all viewing directions in article number 1600599. This finding overturns the conventional wisdom that non-iridescent color cannot be produced by long-range order photonic structures, opening new potential to mass produce new structural colors.

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<i>Advanced Optical Materials</i>

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