Rainbow peacock spiders inspire miniature super-iridescent optics

Bor-Kai Hsiung; Radwanul Hasan Siddique; Doekele G. Stavenga; Jürgen C. Otto; Michael C. Allen; Ying Liu; Yong-Feng Lu; Dimitri D. Deheyn; Matthew D. Shawkey; Todd A. Blackledge

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02451-x

Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Rainbow peacock spiders inspire miniature super-iridescent optics

Bor-Kai Hsiung,
Radwanul Hasan Siddique,
Doekele G. Stavenga,
Jürgen C. Otto,
Michael C. Allen,
Ying Liu,
Yong-Feng Lu,
Dimitri D. Deheyn,
Matthew D. Shawkey,
Todd A. Blackledge

Affiliations

Bor-Kai Hsiung: Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, The University of Akron
Radwanul Hasan Siddique: Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Doekele G. Stavenga: Department of Computational Physics, University of Groningen
Jürgen C. Otto: 19 Grevillea Avenue
Michael C. Allen: Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, San Diego
Ying Liu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Yong-Feng Lu: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dimitri D. Deheyn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, San Diego
Matthew D. Shawkey: Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, The University of Akron
Todd A. Blackledge: Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, The University of Akron

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02451-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Several animals and plants get their often spectacular colouration and iridescence from structural colouration. Here, Hsiung et al. show the 3-dimensional nanostructures that produce the rainbow colours on the abdomen of miniature peacock spiders.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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