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physics.optics2026
Chirality Inversion and Giant Optical Activity in Scalable Self-Assembled Metamaterials
Antonio Carone, Aso Rahimzadegan, Birgül Kalkan +8
Chiral materials manipulate light in ways that hold promise for sensing, imaging, and photonics, but producing such materials with strong and reproducible optical activity at large…
physics.optics2026
Countershading coloration in blue shark skin emerges from hierarchically organized and spatially tuned photonic architectures inside skin denticles
Viktoriia Kamska, Emeline Raguin, Bodo D. Wilts +11
The blue shark (Prionace glauca) exhibits a striking dorsoventral color gradient, transitioning from vibrant blue dorsally to silver and white ventrally, a pattern widely interpret…