Last reviewed 2026-06-21
Color Without Pigment
How biological and engineered nanostructures make color from geometry.
Read the living synthesis →Curated research question
How closely can we copy the color-making structures found in nature?
Current answer
Sources that address it
- Biomimetic Omnidirectional Anti-reflective Glass via Direct Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuringpreprint
- Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural colorationpreprint
- Efficient structural color from pigment-loaded nanostructurespreprint
- Fabrication and characterization of Fused Deposition Modeling 3D printed mm-scaled metasurfacespreprint
- Multiscale reduced-order modeling of fused filament fabricated compositespreprint
- Self-assembly of silica colloidal crystal thin films with tuneable structural coloursweb
- Sensitivity increase of 3D printed, self-sensing, carbon fibers structures with conductive filament matrixpreprint
- Solution-processed structural colors and their applicationsweb