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Biophotonics: A Literal Elytral Rainbow: Tunable Structural Colors Using Single Diamond Biophotonic Crystals in Pachyrrhynchus congestus Weevils (Small 46/2018)
Author(s) -
Wilts Bodo D.,
Saranathan Vinodkumar
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201870212
Subject(s) - biophotonics , materials science , diamond , nanotechnology , photonics , optoelectronics , composite material
In article number 1802328 , Bodo D. Wilts and Vinodkumar Saranathan uncover the optical mechanism of colour tuning employed by the snout weevil, P. congestus pavonius . Different‐coloured wing scales are achieved by simultaneously adjusting both the lattice parameters and the filling fractions of single diamond photonic crystals to achieve the remarkable tuning of the structural colours across the visible light spectrum.