Month: April 2023

1. Deconstructing beetles elucidates origins of colour

   In work just published in Materials Today Advances, members of the group, led by Laura Ospina-Rozo, report new results into the optical and near-infrared properties of beetle elytra. We showed that some scarab beetles use composite, non-chiral structures to reflect light where the elytra consist of a broadband reflective structure overlain by a green filter. […]

   optics.physics.unimelb.edu.au/2023/04/12/deconstructing-beetles-elucidates-origins-of-colour