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  1. Gold nanoparticles explore cells: Cellular uptake and their use as intracellular probes
  2. The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin
  3. Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling
  4. The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge
  5. Quantifying the refractive index dispersion of a pigmented biological tissue using Jamin–Lebedeff interference microscopy
  6. Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta
  7. Are insect displays tuned to insect vision?
  8. Shine and Hide: Biological Photonic Crystals on the Wings of Weevils
  9. Sexual Dichromatism of the Damselfly Calopteryx japonica Caused by a Melanin-Chitin Multilayer in the Male Wing Veins
  10. Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group
  11. Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis
  12. Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales
  13. Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal
  14. Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy
  15. Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales
  16. Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings
  17. Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima
  18. Swelling and Softening of the CCMV Plant Virus Capsid in Response to pH Shifts