
Structural Colors In The Realm Of Nature
Shuichi Kinoshita(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 20. October 2008
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-981-270-783-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 physical origin such as diffraction or interference of light. The latter, called structural color or iridescence, has long been a problem of scientific interest. Recently, structural colors have attracted great interest because various photonic architectures, now developing in modern technologies, have been spontaneously created in the self-organization process and have been extensively used as one of the important visual functions. In this book, the fundamental optical properties underlying structural colors are explained, and these mysteries of nature are surveyed from the viewpoint of biological diversity and according to their sophisticated structures. The book proposes a general principle of structural colors based on the structural hierarchy and presents up-to-date applications.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
683 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-270-783-3 (9789812707833)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
General Introduction; Fundamental Optical Processes in Structural Coloration; Butterflies and Moths; Beetles (Beetles, Dragonfly, Spider, etc.); Birds (Peacock, Hummingbird, Dove, Kingfisher, etc.); Fish (Fish, Squid, Shell, Reptiles, etc.); Plants; Miscellaneous (Minerals, Opal, Fossil and Virus); Industrial Applications of Structural Colorations.