NANOSTRUCTURED CAPSULES COULD BRING ABOUT PAINTS AND
ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS THAT NEVER FADE
Among the taxidermal specimens in Harvard’s Museum of
Comparative Zoology, past centuries-old fur coats, arises a flicker of
brilliant blue. This is the spangled cotinga. Surprisingly, the cotinga is
about as old as everything in the room, but its color is still as dazzling as
the day it was brought to the museum. The cotinga—or rather its
feathers—achieve this effect through structural color.