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Till now, natural biostructures have already been converted to a broad range of oxides. To prepare these replicas, metal ions were first coordinated on the surface of biological templates via an impregnation process. The hybrids were subsequently sintered in air under high temperatures to form desired oxides, with the original biological skeletons simultaneously removed.

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    Jiajun Gu, Di Zhang & Yongwen Tan

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Gu, J., Zhang, D., Tan, Y. (2015). Toward Metallic Butterfly Wing Scales. In: Metallic Butterfly Wing Scales. SpringerBriefs in Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12535-0_2

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