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What makes lamellar morphology from roughly equal-volume diblock copolymers analogous to the layered nanostructures found in butterfly wing scales?
Colloids and Soft Matter
Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
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Structural Color for Additive Manufacturing: 3D-Printed Photonic Crystals from Block Copolymers
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