Liquid – liquid phase separation morphologies in ultra-white beetle scales and a synthetic equivalent

Cyphochilus beetle scales are amongst the brightest structural whites in nature, being highly opacifying whilst extremely thin. However, the formation mechanism for the voided intra- scale structure is unknown. Here we report 3D x-ray nanotomography data for the voided chitin networks of intact whit...

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Main Authors:	Stephanie L Burg, Adam Washington, David M Coles, Antonino Bianco, Daragh Mcloughlin, Oleksandr O Mykhaylyk, Julie Villanova, Andrew JC Dennison, Christopher J Hill, Pete Vukusic, Scott Doak, Simon Martin, Mark Hutchings, Steven R Parnell, Cvetelin Vasilev, Nigel Clarke, Anthony J Ryan, Will Furnass, Mike Croucher, Robert M Dalgliesh, Sylvain Prevost, Rajeev Dattani, Andrew Parker, Richard AL Jones, J Patrick A Fairclough, Andrew J Parnell
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Beetle scales
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9751877.v1
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