(Nanowerk Spotlight) The vibrant blue of a morpho butterfly's wings doesn't come from pigments but from light interacting with microscopic structures on its surface. This phenomenon – structural color ...

MXene thin films deliver brighter, more tunable structural colors and a wider color range than conventional materials, enabling scalable high-performance coatings for sensors, displays, and security ...

A brilliant-blue tarantula may give many people the heebie-jeebies, but for a group of scientists, the arachnid was the inspiration for a new hue that could transform digital screens. The new pigment ...

Vinothan N. Manoharan holds up a small vial of liquid. It looks something like milk—white and opaque and otherwise unremarkable. But the particles that make up this suspension could one day be used to ...