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Butterflies Regulate Wing Temperatures Using Radiative Cooling

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Abstract

We discovered that the spatial distribution of coloration and emissivity of butterfly wings help regulate wing temperatures, and that the spatial variation of thermal emissivity is mainly controlled by nano-structures of the wing scales.

© 2017 Optical Society of America

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