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Article: Beetle shell inspires new way to make brilliant white paper.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- June 11, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, June 11 (ANI): A team of researchers from Imerys Minerals Ltd. and the University of Exeter have derived some inspiration from an obscure species of beetle to develop a completely new way to make brilliant white paper.
The researchers have revealed that their took inspiration from the shell of the Cyphochilus beetle to understand how to produce a new kind of white coating for paper.
A 2007 study from the University of Exeter and Imerys Minerals Ltd. had already shown that the beetle produces its brilliant whiteness using a unique surface structure.
Publishing the new research in the journal Applied Optics, the ...