How to make “brilliant white” – learn from a shrimp

Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have found that the Cleaner shrimp’s brilliant white stripes are due to isoxanthopterin molecules in a liquid crystal, just 5 microns thick that cause extreme birefringence (dual refraction light scattering). Now to replicate it!

https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/news/Shrimp-photonics-Palmer2023.aspx

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01182-4

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