Butterfly Wings Inspire Light-Manipulating Surface for Medical Implants
Inspired by tiny nanostructures on transparent butterfly wings, engineers at Caltech have developed a synthetic analogue for eye implants that makes them more effective and longer-lasting. A paper about the research was published in Nature Nanotechnology on April 30.
The study is titled "Multifunctional biophotonic nanostructures inspired by longtail glasswing butterfly wings for medical devices." Co-authors include Caltech postdoctoral scholars Shailabh Kumar, Blaise Ndjamen, and Jeong Oen Lee; Caltech WAVE Fellow Natalie Hong; and Juan Du and David Sretavan from the UC San Francisco.