Excellent Structure-Based Multifunction of Morpho Butterfly Wings: A Review
Excellent Structure-Based Multifunction of Morpho Butterfly Wings: A Review作者机构:Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering (Ministry of Education China) Jilin University Changchun 130022 China
出 版 物:《Journal of Bionic Engineering》 (仿生工程学报(英文版))
年 卷 期:2015年第12卷第2期
页 面:170-189页
核心收录:
学科分类:090403[农学-农药学(可授农学、理学学位)] 081704[工学-应用化学] 07[理学] 070304[理学-物理化学(含∶化学物理)] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 09[农学] 0904[农学-植物保护] 0703[理学-化学]
基 金:This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51325501 51175220 51205161 and 51290292) Science and Technology Development Project of Jilin Province (No. 20111808) and the Graduate Innovation Fund of Jilin University (No. 20121085)
主 题:Morpho butterfly wing scales microstructure structure-based functions bionics
摘 要:Morpho butterfly, famous for its iridescence wing scales, has gradually evolved a diversity of functions and has attracted much attention recently. On the other hand, it is known that the wing surface of Morpho butterfly has some complex and so- phisticated structures. In fact, they are composed of an alternating multilayer film system of chitin and air layers, which have different refractive indexes. More importantly, these structures can interact strongly with visible light because the feature size of the structures is in the same order of magnitude with light wavelength. It is noteworthy that it is these optical architectures that cause the excellent multifunction including structural color, antireflection, thermal response, selective vapour response, direc- tional adhesion, superhydrophobicity and so on. This review mainly covers the excellent multifunctional features of Morpho butterfly wings with representative functional structures of multilayer film system, photonic crystal and ridges. Then, the mechanism of the structure-based optical multifunction of Morpho butterfly is analyzed. In order to facilitate mechanism analysis, the models of bionic functional structures are reported, as well as the interaction process between the multiscale structures and the external media It is concluded that these functions of Morpho butterfly wings have inevitable and corre- sponding regularity connection with the structural parameters and the dielectric coefficient of the filled medium. At last, the future direction and prospects of this field are briefly addressed. It is hoped that this review could be beneficial to provide some innovative insoirations and new ideas to the researchers in the fields of engineering, biomedicine, and materials science.