MEDIA GALLERY

STRUCTURAL COLOR: Nate and Sam visit Lauren Zarzar, assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State, to talk about color and a cool kitchen science experiment. Where does color come from and what makes things like opals and butterfly wings iridescent?

Water condensing on the lid of a Petri dish displays iridescent color. Nature, 2019

Janus biphasic oil droplets in water display iridescence. A half ping-pong ball is used to visualize the angular color distribution. Nature, 2019

Amy Goodling discusses her research on structural color

Descriptive video of how structural color is generated from multiple total internal reflections at concave interfaces. Nature, 2019

Biphasic oil droplets display iridescence when illuminated with white light and viewed from different directions. Nature 2019

MIT researchers have devised a new way to make complex liquid mixtures, known as emulsions, that could have many applications in drug delivery, sensing, cleaning up pollutants, and performing chemical reactions. (Learn more about these complex emulsions: http://bit.ly/1akhMHC) Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Additional imagery courtesy of Lauren Zarzar/Vishnu Sresht/Nature Music sampled from "Treppe 3" by Rod Hamilton http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rod_Hamilton/Atitlan/Rod_Hamilton_-_Atitlan_-_01_Treppe_3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Biphasic oil droplets, made of hexane (dyed red) and perfluorohexane and dispersed in water, change their structure in response to the addition of a fluorosurfactant. Nature 2015

A hydrogel square "drawn' using multiphoton lithography. Angew Chem 2011