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Beetle microstructures.

The interplay between mechanical and optical performance in beetle exoskeletons has been probed by researchers at Virginia Tech. They discovered that the structures providing mechanical support are also contributors to the optical properties such as colour.

Their results can be viewed in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/25/e2101017118
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