Structural colors in the realm of nature / Shuichi Kinoshita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinoshita, Shūichi, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Color.

Animals.

Structural colors.

Animal pigments.

Plants--Color.

Plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Structural colorations originate from self-organized microstructures, which interact with light in a complex way to produce brilliant colors seen everywhere in nature. Research in this field is extremely new and has been rapidly growing in the last 10 years, because the elaborate structures created in nature can now be fabricated through various types of nanotechnologies. Indeed, a fundamental book covering this field from biological, physical, and engineering viewpoints has long been expected.Coloring in nature comes mostly from inherent colors of materials, though it sometimes has a purely p

Contents:

1. Introduction. 1.1. What is structural color? 1.2. Historical overview

2. Fundamentals of structural coloration. 2.1. Fundamentals of properties of light. 2.2. Thin-film interference. 2.3. Multilayer interference. 2.4. Diffraction of light and diffraction grating. 2.5. Photonic crystals. 2.6. Light scattering

3. Butterflies and moths. 3.1. General descriptions. 3.2. Morpho butterflies. 3.3. Overview of the structural coloration in butterflies and moths

4. Beetles and other insects. 4.1. Overview. 4.2. Beetles. 4.3. Damselflies and dragonflies. 4.4. Shield bugs and cicadas. 4.5. Other insects

5. Birds. 5.1. Overview. 5.2. Peacocks, pheasants, and ducks. 5.3. Hummingbirds. 5.4. Trogons. 5.5. Pigeons. 5.6. Non-iridescent colorations - kingfishers, parakeets, cotingas, and jays

6. Fish. 6.1. General description. 6.2. Static iridophores. 6.3. Motile iridophores. 6.4. Motile iridophores

7. Plants

8. Miscellaneous. 8.1. Shells. 8.2. Spiders. 8.3. Marine animals

9. Mathematical background. 9.1. Calculations of multilayer reflection. 9.2. Model for Morpho butterfly scale. 9.3. Antireflection effect. 9.4. Average refractive index. 9.5. Cholesteric liquid crystal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789812709752

9812709754

OCLC:

785724092