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STRUCTURAL COLOR MAKES IRIDESCENCE. "All structural color results from nanostructure, including in the iridescence tails of male peacocks ... the spacing between melanin rods varies to produce each discernable color. If we ground up a peacock tail feather, we would destroy the nanostructure and end up with a pile of fine, gray dust." https://lnkd.in/dFvtWWa View in LinkedIn

PIGMENTED COLOR. "In pigmented color, such as the red fur of a fox, red pigments in its coat absorb all colors except red. Our brain recognizes color when a specific wavelength, about 700 nanometers for red, reaches the light-sensitive cells in our retina and gets processed in the visual region of our brain." https://lnkd.in/dFvtWWa View in LinkedIn

NEW IRIDESCENT PAINTS. "Schenk set about finding pigments with similar reflective and color-changing qualities. She discovered that major advances had been made in color-shifting nanoparticles, but they were only produced for industrial uses, such as car finishes and cosmetics ... Schenk was able to adapt the industrial nanoparticles for artistic use." https://lnkd.in/dRdF4Z6 View in LinkedIn

BIOMIMICRY PAINT COMPANY. "Lifescaped, led by Professor Andrew Parker, is pioneering biomimetics: the science of learning from nature’s design principles. The team is trying to benefit from the trials and errors of 3.9 billion years of evolution."" " https://lnkd.in/dqVuX64 View in LinkedIn

CULTURED DIATOMS. "This would enable diatom shells to be mass-produced, harvested and mixed into paints, cosmetics and clothing to create stunning colour-changing effects, or embedded into polymers to produce difficult-to-forge holograms." (Natural History Museum and Oxford University). https://lnkd.in/dpQ_gxV View in LinkedIn

CULTURED IRIDESCENT DIATOMS. "UK scientists have now found an extremely effective way of growing diatoms in controlled laboratory conditions, with potential for scale-up to industrial level." https://lnkd.in/dpQ_gxV View in LinkedIn

COMMERCIAL QUANTITIES. "It is the first time researchers have been able to accurately manufacture these structures in the lab and are now working on up-scaling the process to produce large enough quantities of for commercial use." https://lnkd.in/dWW45k6 View in LinkedIn

LONDON'S NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM STUDIES. "Professor Parker and colleagues have been able to culture an entire ‘Morpho peliedes’ (blue morpho) butterfly forewing from cells dissected from the chrysalis." https://lnkd.in/dWW45k6 View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC IRIDOPHORE NANOPARTICLES. "The particle size can be tuned with salts that control the interactions between charges on the proteins." (Tuning is equivalent to doping of semiconductors). https://lnkd.in/dMaBF7b View in LinkedIn

DURABLE IRIDESCENCE. "We have dug up 49 million year old beetles and they are still the same colour that they were when they died". https://lnkd.in/dWW45k6 View in LinkedIn