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Brilliant Whiteness in Ultrathin Beetle Scales by Vukusic, Pete, Hallam, Benny, Noyes, Joe

“…The colored appearances of animals are controlled by pigmentation, highly periodic ultrastructure, or a combination of both. Whiteness, however, is less common…”
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Optically ambidextrous circularly polarized reflection from the chiral cuticle of the scarab beetle Chrysina resplendens by Finlayson, Ewan D., McDonald, Luke T., Vukusic, Pete

“…The evolution of structural colour mechanisms in biological systems has given rise to many interesting optical effects in animals and plants. The instance of…”
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Multifaceted Structurally Coloured Materials: Diffraction and Total Internal Reflection (TIR) from Nanoscale Surface Wrinkling by Tan, Annabelle, Ahmad, Zain, Vukusic, Pete, Cabral, João T

“…We investigate the combined effects of surface diffraction and total internal reflection (TIR) in the design of 3-dimensional materials exhibiting distinct…”
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Directionally Controlled Fluorescence Emission in Butterflies by Vukusic, Pete, Hooper, Ian

“…Recently developed, high-efficiency, light-emitting diodes use two-dimensional photonic crystals to enhance the extraction of otherwise internally trapped…”
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Light manipulation principles in biological photonic systems by Starkey Tim, Vukusic Pete

“…The science of light and colour manipulation continues to generate interest across a range of disciplines, from mainstream biology, across multiple…”
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Wing scale ultrastructure underlying convergent and divergent iridescent colours in mimetic Heliconius butterflies by Parnell, Andrew J., Bradford, James E., Curran, Emma V., Washington, Adam L., Adams, Gracie, Brien, Melanie N., Burg, Stephanie L., Morochz, Carlos, Fairclough, J. Patrick A., Vukusic, Pete, Martin, Simon J., Doak, Scott, Nadeau, Nicola J.

“…Iridescence is an optical phenomenon whereby colour changes with the illumination and viewing angle. It can be produced by thin film interference or…”
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Classification of peacock feather reflectance using principal component analysis similarity factors from multispectral imaging data by Medina, José M, Díaz, José A, Vukusic, Pete

“…Iridescent structural colors in biology exhibit sophisticated spatially-varying reflectance properties that depend on both the illumination and viewing angles…”
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A partnership approach to pandemic policy: building student confidence in the wake of Covid-19 by Chittenden, Cara, Dinh, Penny, Hawkins, Beverley, Freathy, Rob, Vukusic, Pete

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Surface plasmons at the Brillouin zone boundary of an oblique lattice by Constant, Thomas J., Vukusic, Pete, Hibbins, Alastair P., Sambles, J. Roy

“…In periodic systems of low-symmetry, the Bragg condition for the complete interference of waves along the contour of the Brillouin zone (BZ) boundary is not…”
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Morphological and Optical Modification of Melanosomes in Fish Integuments upon Oxidation by Mouchet, Sébastien R., Cortesi, Fabio, Bokic, Bojana, Lazovic, Vladimir, Vukusic, Pete, Marshall, N. Justin, Kolaric, Branko

“…Reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as superoxide radicals O2−, hydroxyl radicals OH−, and hydrogen peroxide H2O2 may have detrimental effects on marine…”
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Liquid–liquid phase separation morphologies in ultra-white beetle scales and a synthetic equivalent by Burg, Stephanie L., Washington, Adam, Coles, David M., Bianco, Antonino, McLoughlin, Daragh, Mykhaylyk, Oleksandr O., Villanova, Julie, Dennison, Andrew J. C., Hill, Christopher J., Vukusic, Pete, Doak, Scott, Martin, Simon J., Hutchings, Mark, Parnell, Steven R., Vasilev, Cvetelin, Clarke, Nigel, Ryan, Anthony J., Furnass, Will, Croucher, Mike, Dalgliesh, Robert M., Prevost, Sylvain, Dattani, Rajeev, Parker, Andrew, Jones, Richard A. L., Fairclough, J. Patrick A., Parnell, Andrew J.

“…Cyphochilus beetle scales are amongst the brightest structural whites in nature, being highly opacifying whilst extremely thin. However, the formation…”
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X-ray nano-tomography of complete scales from the ultra-white beetles Lepidiota stigma and Cyphochilus by Burg, Stephanie L., Washington, Adam L., Villanova, Julie, Dennison, Andrew J. C., McLoughlin, Daragh, Mykhaylyk, Oleksandr O., Vukusic, Pete, Furnass, Will, Jones, Richard A. L., Parnell, Andrew J., Fairclough, J. Patrick A.

“…High resolution X-ray nano-tomography experiments are often limited to a few tens of micrometer size volumes due to detector size. It is possible, through the…”
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Hyperspectral optical imaging of two different species of lepidoptera by Medina, José Manuel, Nascimento, Sérgio Miguel Cardoso, Vukusic, Pete

“…In this article, we report a hyperspectral optical imaging application for measurement of the reflectance spectra of photonic structures that produce…”
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Evolutionary Photonics with a Twist by Vukusic, Pete

“…The iridescent appearance of the hard forewings of scarab beetles can be caused by complex helical nanostructures…”
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Structural Colour: Elusive Iridescence Strategies Brought to Light by Vukusic, Pete

“…Understanding structural colours in nature requires the right set of optical experiments: this is illustrated by a new study on iridescent bird of paradise…”
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Structural colour in Lepidoptera by Vukusic, Pete

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Photonic structures in biology by Vukusic, Pete, Sambles, J. Roy

“…Millions of years before we began to manipulate the flow of light using synthetic structures, biological systems were using nanometre-scale architectures to…”
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Natural designs for manipulating the appearance of surfaces by Vukusic, Pete

“…The surfaces of animals and plants are frequently adorned with a wealth of pattern, colour, and texture. Some insects for example, exhibit uniformly‐coloured…”
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Revealing natural fluorescence in transparent insect wings by linear and nonlinear optical techniques by Mouchet, Sébastien R., Verstraete, Charlotte, Bokic, Bojana, Mara, Dimitrije, Dellieu, Louis, Orr, Albert G., Deparis, Olivier, Van Deun, Rik, Verbiest, Thierry, Vukusic, Pete, Kolaric, Branko

“…For most natural organisms, the physical, chemical and biological aspects of fluorescence emission are poorly understood. For example, to the best of our…”
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Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio blumei butterfly by Scherer, Maik R. J, Kolle, Mathias, Baumberg, Jeremy J, Vukusic, Pete, Steiner, Ullrich, Salgard-Cunha, Pedro M, Huang, Fumin, Mahajan, Sumeet

“…The brightest and most vivid colours in nature arise from the interaction of light with surfaces that exhibit periodic structure on the micro- and nanoscale…”
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