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  1. Distributed Bragg reflectors from colloidal trilayer flake solutions

    Article • APL Photonics, February 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  2. What's in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  3. Polydopamine Nanoparticle Doped Nanofluid for Solar Thermal Energy Collector Efficiency Increase

    Article • Advanced Sustainable Systems, December 2019, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  4. Determining the complex Jones matrix elements of a chiral 3D optical metamaterial

    Article • APL Photonics, December 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  5. Diffusive structural colour in Hoplia argentea

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  6. Humidity-dependent colour change in the green forester moth, Adscita statices

    Article • Biology Letters, September 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  7. Measuring the refractive index dispersion of (un)pigmented biological tissues by Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy

    Article • AIP Advances, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  8. Pterin-pigmented nanospheres create the colours of the polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  9. Living light : optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  10. Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  11. Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  12. Metasurfaces Atop Metamaterials: Surface Morphology Induces Linear Dichroism in Gyroid Optical Metamaterials

    Article • Advanced Materials, November 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  13. Controlling Self-Assembly in Gyroid Terpolymer Films By Solvent Vapor Annealing

    Article • Small, September 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  14. A Literal Elytral Rainbow: Tunable Structural Colors Using Single Diamond Biophotonic Crystals in Pachyrrhynchus congestus Weevils

    Article • Small, August 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  15. Ultrastructure and optics of the prism-like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)

    Article • New Phytologist, June 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  16. Living Light 2018: Conference Report

    Article • Biomimetics, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Bodo Wilts

  17. It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

    Article • Advanced Materials, March 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  18. Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Bodo Wilts

  19. Polymer-Templated LiFePO4/C Nanonetworks as High-Performance Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  20. Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, December 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  21. Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  22. Spectrally resolved surface plasmon resonance dispersion using half-ball optics

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  23. Nanodroplet-Containing Polymers for Efficient Low-Power Light Upconversion

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2017, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  24. Optical Imaging of Large Gyroid Grains in Block Copolymer Templates by Confined Crystallization

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  25. Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  26. Mesoporous Titania Microspheres with Highly Tunable Pores as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  27. Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales

    Article • Advanced Materials, June 2017, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  28. Circularly polarized reflection from the scarab beetle Chalcothea smaragdina : light scattering by a dual photonic structure

    Article • Interface Focus, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  29. Emergence and function of complex form in self-assembly and biological cells

    Article • Interface Focus, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  30. Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development

    Article • Science Advances, April 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Bodo Wilts

  31. Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films

    Article • APL Photonics, April 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  32. Formation of Synthetic Nanopores with Diameters from 20-50 nm by Laser-Assisted Dielectric Breakdown

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2017, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  33. Patterning of perovskite–polymer films by wrinkling instabilities

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  34. Extreme Refractive Index Wing Scale Beads Containing Dense Pterin Pigments Cause the Bright Colors of Pierid Butterflies

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2016, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  35. Structural Color in Marine Algae

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2016, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  36. Gyroid Optical Metamaterials: Calculating the Effective Permittivity of Multidomain Samples

    Article • ACS Photonics, September 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  37. Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke’s birdwing butterflies

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  38. Splendid coloration of the peacock spiderMaratus splendens

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  39. Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Through Nd-Doping of Mesostructured TiO2

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, December 2015, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  40. Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  41. Structural colour in Chondrus crispus

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  42. Swelling and Softening of the Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus in Response to pH Shifts

    Article • Biophysical Journal, May 2015, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  43. High refractive index of melanin in shiny occipital feathers of a bird of paradise

    Article • Light Science & Applications, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  44. Optical Properties of Gyroid Structured Materials: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2014, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  45. Pigmentary and photonic coloration mechanisms reveal taxonomic relationships of the Cattlehearts (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parides)

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  46. Gold nanoparticles explore cells: Cellular uptake and their use as intracellular probes

    Article • Methods, July 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  47. The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  48. Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2014, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts, Prof. dr. Theo Elzenga, Bodo Wilts

  49. Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  50. Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Bodo Wilts

  51. Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  52. Absence of Circular Polarisation in Reflections of Butterfly Wing Scales with Chiral Gyroid Structure

    Article • Materials Today Proceedings, January 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  53. Natural Helicoidal Structures: Morphology, Self-assembly and Optical Properties

    Article • Materials Today Proceedings, January 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  54. The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, November 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  55. Quantifying the refractive index dispersion of a pigmented biological tissue using Jamin–Lebedeff interference microscopy

    Article • Light Science & Applications, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  56. Spectral tuning of Amazon parrot feather coloration by psittacofulvin pigments and spongy structures

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  57. Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  58. Are insect displays tuned to insect vision?

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  59. Shine and Hide: Biological Photonic Crystals on the Wings of Weevils

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Prof Hans De Raedt, Bodo Wilts

  60. Sexual Dichromatism of the Damselfly Calopteryx japonica Caused by a Melanin-Chitin Multilayer in the Male Wing Veins

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Bodo Wilts, Prof Hans De Raedt, Bodo Wilts

  61. Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

    Article • Optics Express, April 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  62. Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  63. Papiliochrome II pigment reduces the angle dependency of structural wing colouration in nireus group papilionids

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  64. Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  65. Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  66. Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, December 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  67. Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy

    Article • Optics Express, November 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  68. Kingfisher feathers - colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2011, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  69. Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  70. Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  71. Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  72. Swelling and Softening of the CCMV Plant Virus Capsid in Response to pH Shifts

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  73. Imaging scatterometry and microspectrophotometry of lycaenid butterfly wing scales with perforated multilayers

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts