List of works by Bodo D. Wilts

A Literal Elytral Rainbow: Tunable Structural Colors Using Single Diamond Biophotonic Crystals in Pachyrrhynchus congestus Weevils

scientific article published on 15 August 2018

Bio-inspired materials to control and minimise insect attachment

scientific article published in 2022

Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis.

scientific article published on 29 February 2012

Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development.

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Circularly polarized reflection from the scarab beetle Chalcothea smaragdina: light scattering by a dual photonic structure.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking

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Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Controlling Self-Assembly in Gyroid Terpolymer Films By Solvent Vapor Annealing

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Correction to 'Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies'

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

Designing refractive index fluids using the Kramers-Kronig relations

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Diffusive structural colour in Hoplia argentea

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales.

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors.

scientific article published on February 2012

Gold nanoparticles explore cells: cellular uptake and their use as intracellular probes.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

Gyroid Optical Metamaterials: Calculating the Effective Permittivity of Multidomain Samples.

scientific article published on 06 September 2016

Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal

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Humidity-dependent colour change in the green forester moth, Adscita statices

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Imaging scatterometry and microspectrophotometry of lycaenid butterfly wing scales with perforated multilayers

scientific article published on 09 September 2008

Insect Color Database ICDB

Insect color database

Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales

scientific article published on 21 December 2011

Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling.

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It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects.

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Kingfisher feathers--colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films

scientific article published in December 2011

Living Light 2018: Conference Report

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms.

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Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes

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Mesoporous Titania Microspheres with Highly Tunable Pores as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries.

scientific article published on 13 June 2017

Nanodroplet-Containing Polymers for Efficient Low-Power Light Upconversion

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Optical Imaging of Large Gyroid Grains in Block Copolymer Templates by Confined Crystallization

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Orientation-Dependent Reflection of Structurally Coloured Butterflies

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Papiliochrome II pigment reduces the angle dependency of structural wing colouration in nireus group papilionids

scientific article published on March 2012

Patterning of perovskite-polymer films by wrinkling instabilities.

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Pigmentary and photonic coloration mechanisms reveal taxonomic relationships of the Cattlehearts (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parides).

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Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima

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Polymer-Templated LiFePO4/C Nanonetworks as High-Performance Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Pterin-pigmented nanospheres create the colours of the polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus

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Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy

scientific article published on November 2011

Sexual dichromatism of the damselfly Calopteryx japonica caused by a melanin-chitin multilayer in the male wing veins

scientific article published in 2012

Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta

scientific article published in 2013

Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

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Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales

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Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings

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Spectral tuning of Amazon parrot feather coloration by psittacofulvin pigments and spongy structures

scientific article published on 12 September 2013

Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales.

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Splendid coloration of the peacock spider Maratus splendens

scientific article published on August 2016

Structural Diversity with Varying Disorder Enables the Multicolored Display in the Longhorn Beetle Sulawesiella rafaelae

scientific article published on 03 July 2020

Structural colour in Chondrus crispus

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Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics

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Swelling and softening of the cowpea chlorotic mottle virus in response to pH shifts

scientific article published on May 2015

The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge

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The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin

scientific article published on 9 April 2014

Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Ultrastructure and optics of the prism-like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterflies

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

scientific article published on April 2012

What's in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail

scientific article published on 28 January 2020

When Black and White make Green: the Surprising Interplay of Structure and Pigments

scientific article published on 01 February 2019