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Bioinspired coloration strategy enabling perfect camouflage up to spectral dimension

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  1. Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xun-En Wu & Yingying Zhang

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Wu, XE., Zhang, Y. Bioinspired coloration strategy enabling perfect camouflage up to spectral dimension. Sci. China Mater. 66, 4139–4140 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-023-2602-8

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