Resumen de Nature's color tricks.
The author explores how an understanding of seven tactics used by animals to create colors may lead to the development of novel technologies. The author notes that scientists are beginning to have a fuller understanding of how highly-organized nanostructures in living organisms manipulate light, such as those responsible for colors in bird feathers. Topics include examples of seven orderly and disorderly geometric patterns of nanostructures that reflect certain wavelengths of light to create specific colors in creatures such as birds, butterflies, and squid, the development of synthetic materials that mimic these biological structures, and how these materials could be used to create technology such as sensors that detect impurities in water.
