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Optical Detection of Vapor Mixtures Using Structurally Colored Butterfly and Moth Wings

Piszter, Gábor and Kertész, Krisztián Imre and Bálint, Zsolt and Biró, László Péter (2019) Optical Detection of Vapor Mixtures Using Structurally Colored Butterfly and Moth Wings. SENSORS, 19 (14). No.-3058. ISSN 1424-8220

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Abstract

Photonic nanoarchitectures in the wing scales of butterflies and moths are capable of fast and chemically selective vapor sensing due to changing color when volatile vapors are introduced to the surrounding atmosphere. This process is based on the capillary condensation of the vapors, which results in the conformal change of the chitin-air nanoarchitectures and leads to a vapor-specific optical response. Here, we investigated the optical responses of the wing scales of several butterfly and moth species when mixtures of different volatile vapors were applied to the surrounding atmosphere. We found that the optical responses for the different vapor mixtures fell between the optical responses of the two pure solvents in all the investigated specimens. The detailed evaluation, using principal component analysis, showed that the butterfly-wing-based sensor material is capable of differentiating between vapor mixtures as the structural color response was found to be characteristic for each of them.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QC Physics / fizika
Q Science / természettudomány > QL Zoology / állattan
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 13 Sep 2019 13:54
Last Modified: 13 Sep 2019 13:54
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/99265

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