Orientation-Dependent Reflection of Structurally Coloured Butterflies

Biomimetics (Basel). 2020 Feb 3;5(1):5. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics5010005.

Authors

Sigrid Zobl¹, Bodo D Wilts², Willi Salvenmoser^{1

3}, Peter Pölt⁴, Ille C Gebeshuber⁵, Thorsten Schwerte^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
² Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.
³ Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
⁴ Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis, University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria.
⁵ Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria.

Abstract

Keywords: orientation-dependent reflection; structural color; butterflies; imprinting technique; instrument adaptation.