Discovering the color that never fades

Discovering the color that never fades

Some plants and fruits, like Pollia condensata, produce vivid colors that never fade. They are created not through pigments but through microscopic structures that manipulate light – this is called structural coloration.
I am Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany) and Professor of Chemistry and Bio-materials at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge (UK). I am a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner.
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