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Brightly Colored 'Supraball' Inks Inspired by Bird Feathers (5 of 6)

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Brightly Colored 'Supraball' Inks Inspired by Bird Feathers (5 of 6)

video: Researchers explain how they designed supraball inks made of core-shell melanin nanoparticles. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 15, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Xiao at The University of Akron in Akron, OH, and colleagues was titled, 'Bioinspired bright noniridescent photonic melanin supraballs.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Ming Xiao at the University of Akron]


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