Morpho butterflies and cooling films (IMAGE)

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Morpho butterflies and cooling films

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Inspired by the way that the Morpho butterfly creates color, researchers developed colorful cooling films that don’t absorb light and thus don’t heat up.

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Wanlin Wang, Shenzhen University

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