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Anoplophora graafi longhorn beetle coloration is due to disordered diamond-like packed spheres

Published:2024 Issue:11 Volume:20 Page:2509-2517
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Djeghdi Kenza¹²^ORCID,Schumacher Cédric¹,Bauernfeind Viola¹²^ORCID,Gunkel Ilja¹²^ORCID,Wilts Bodo D.²³^ORCID,Steiner Ullrich¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

2. National Competence Center in Bioinspired Materials, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

3. Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials, University of Salzburg, Jakob-Haringer-Straße 2A, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Abstract

While artificial photonic materials are typically highly ordered, biological photonic structures often lack long-range order. We here show that the colours of the scales of a longhorn beetle arise from a non-close-packed, diamond-coordinated assembly of 200-nm-sized chitin spheres.

Funder

Adolphe Merkle Foundation

H2020 European Research Council

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/SM/D4SM00068D

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