| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Frontiers of Materials Award Symposium: Manufacturing Structural and Functional Materials with Complexity: Lessons from Nature
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| Presentation Title |
Butterfly Cells Employ Mechanics to Form Wing Scales |
| Author(s) |
Anthony McDougal, Jan Totz, Peter So, Jörn Dunkel, Bodo Wilts, Mathias Kolle |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Mathias Kolle |
| Abstract Scope |
Investigations of nature’s most fascinating light manipulation strategies can inspire design concepts for synthetic, hierarchically structured, functional materials and devices. Butterfly scales are fascinating examples of nature’s ability to make multifunctional materials. And while many of the principles underlying the scales’ functions are well understood, how the wing cells form the scales’ micro- and nanomorphologies is not. I will discuss our research on visualizing and modeling butterfly scale structure formation and present recent findings on the role of mechanical processes in the formation of ridges on butterfly scales. These processes are not constraint to butterflies but rather appear to be essential for the secretion of structural and multifunctional materials in many other species. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |
| Keywords |
Biomaterials, |