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Why does faithfully replicating butterfly wing scale optics require hierarchical nanostructures rather than a single length scale?
Colloids and Soft Matter
Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Structural Color
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Biomimetic reconstruction of butterfly wing scale nanostructures for radiative cooling and structural coloration
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