Structural Color: How Noniridescent Colors Are Generated by Quasi‐ordered Structures of Bird Feathers (Adv. Mater. 26–27/2010)

Many species of birds produce brilliant non-iridescent colors by light scattering from nanostructures with only short-range order, as explored by Noh and co-workers on page 2871. Forster and co-workers have designed materials composed of polymer nanoparticles to produce color via the same mechanism. TEM and SEM images help visualize the character of these materials.