Leafhopper (IMAGE)
Caption
Pictured is a leafhopper G. serpenta. Lin Wang et al. studied the geometric designs of the surface coatings on leafhopper bodies. Leafhoppers produce brochosomes to coat their body surfaces, which are hollow, nanoscopic, buckyball-shaped spheroids with through-holes distributed across their surfaces. The authors found that the through-holes of these hollow buckyballs play an important role in reducing the reflection of light. This is the first biological example showing short wavelength, low-pass antireflection functionality enabled by through-holes and hollow structures.
Credit
Lin Wang and Tak-Sing Wong/Penn State
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