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Chemistry World
March 29, 2011 |
A Single Scale Tells More Than a Whole Wing Scientists in China have made zinc oxide replicas of single scales from butterfly wings to understand and exploit their optical properties for sensor and solar cell applications.   |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2010
Penny Crosman |
Science Behind Butterfly Wings Could Secure Bank Notes Cambridge scientists have developed the technology to recreate the colors on butterfly wings, and this technology could be used to secure printed notes, they say. |
Chemistry World
October 20, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Mimicking Mother Nature's Solar Panels Scientists in China have studied the anti-reflective behavior of black butterfly scales to understand the way these natural solar collectors work. |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2012
Laura Howes |
Thermal imaging on the wing By adding carbon nanotubes to butterfly wings chemists have been able to turn these nanostructures into an infrared detector. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2015
Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Phosphorescent 'butterfly' molecules' glow tuned Molecular 'butterflies' that flutter their wings under light can be tuned to glow red or blue, or both. |
Chemistry World
November 29, 2006
Lionel Milgrom |
Pterins, Sex and the Single Butterfly Researchers have characterised the molecular composition and optical properties of pigmented nanoscopic granules found in the tiny wing scales of the pierid butterfly, Pontia protodice. |
Chemistry World
November 1, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Insects Make Nanotech Impression Chinese researchers have reported a cheap and effective way to print nanoscale structures onto surfaces: they use stamps created from the delicately patterned wings of cicadas. |
Chemistry World
October 13, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
Probes Inspired by Butterflies Inspired by the feeding tube of butterflies, US scientists have made a flexible and porous artificial proboscis that could be used to collect tiny liquid samples. The probe can be operated remotely to collect hazardous liquids. |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2012
Emma Shiells |
Fluorescence, camera, action Fluorescence responses can be analyzed using digital photography instead of spectroscopy, say scientists in Germany. The technology could eventually be integrated into smart phones. |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Butterflies offer lessons for robots Researchers from Oxford University in England have devised a method of studying the way butterflies fly, and their initial results show that the insects have many more tricks of flight than they get credit for. |
Chemistry World
June 2010 |
How to disappear completely Animals use all sorts of optical trickery to make themselves invisible to predators. Hayley Birch finds out how the natural world can help develop new camouflage materials |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2013 |
Coloring in the dinosaur book Chemists' best known contributions to palaeontology are probably radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. But they now face a bigger challenge that has traditionally fallen into the hands of artists: adding color to the ancient world. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2006
Justin Mullins |
Butterfly Effect The structure that makes one LED researcher's device so special has recently been found to be similar to a sophisticated method of manipulating light discovered in the African swallowtail butterfly Princeps nireus. |
Wired
Gary Wolf |
A Simple Plan to ID Every Creature on Earth All over the world, farmers, port inspectors, game wardens, exterminators, building contractors, and, of course, professional biologists are staring at some form of plant or animal life and wondering helplessly what it is. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2015
Paul Brack |
Refreshing Van Gogh's faded flowers Conservators at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands are working with scientists at AkzoNobel to reverse the effects of time, and reveal Van Gogh's paintings as they appeared when he first painted them. |
Science News
April 11, 2009 |
Science Past For April 11, 2009 In 1959, scientists urged to uncover specimens of Peking Man. |
