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  1. Optical Diversity and Nanostructural Organization in the Colored Scales of Sternotomis

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, March 2026, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  2. Metachromatic Butterfly Bile Pigments for Multi‐Level Optical Security Films

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, March 2026, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  3. Bridging Solution and Solid-State Mechanism: Confined Quasi-Solid-State Conversion in Li–S Batteries

    Article • ACS Energy Letters, October 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  4. Hierarchical woven fibrillar structures in developing single gyroids in butterflies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Anna-Lee Jessop, Bodo Wilts

  5. Macroscopic order in block copolymer gyroid films by solvent evaporation annealing

    Article • Polymer, September 2025, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  6. Machine Learning of Raman Spectroscopic Data: Comparison of Different Validation Strategies

    Article • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, June 2025, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  7. A leaf-mimicking moth uses nanostructures to create 3D leaf shape appearance

    Article • Current Biology, March 2025, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  8. Orientation-dependent photonic bandgaps in gold-dust weevil scales and their titania bioreplicates

    Article • Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, January 2025, Beilstein Institut

    Bodo Wilts

  9. Correction: Anoplophora graafi longhorn beetle coloration is due to disordered diamond-like packed spheres

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  10. Celebrating the 60th birthday and achievements of Professor Ulli Steiner

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  11. The mechanistic origin of amber pigmentation of Perithemis tenera (Say, 1840) wings (Odonata: Libellulidae) and its function in conspecific signalling

    Article • Zoology, November 2024, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  12. Block Copolymer-Directed Single-Diamond Hybrid Structures Derived from X-ray Nanotomography

    Article • ACS Nano, September 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  13. Elucidating nanostructural organization and photonic properties of butterfly wing scales using hyperspectral microscopy

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  14. Not only a matter of disorder in I-WP minimal surface-based photonic networks: Diffusive structural color in Sternotomis amabilis longhorn beetles

    Article • Materials Today Advances, August 2024, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  15. High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of topological textures in nanoscale single-diamond networks

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  16. Cell membrane buckling governs early-stage ridge formation in butterfly wing scales

    Article • Cell Reports Physical Science, July 2024, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  17. Reversible Temperature Sensing using Blue‐Winged Grasshopper Coloracris azureus Wings

    Article • Small, February 2024, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  18. Thin film structural color is widespread in slime molds (Myxomycetes, Amoebozoa)

    Article • Optics Express, January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Bodo Wilts

  19. Anoplophora graafi longhorn beetle coloration is due to disordered diamond-like packed spheres

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  20. Directed Self-Assembly of Diamond Networks in Triblock Terpolymer Films on Patterned Substrates

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, November 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  21. Unconventional bound states in the continuum from metamaterial-induced electron acoustic waves

    Article • Advanced Photonics, September 2023, SPIE

    Bodo Wilts

  22. Biopolymer Photonics: From Nature to Nanotechnology

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, August 2023, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  23. Hexagonal‐Close‐Packed Colloidal Crystals in Glenea celestis Beetles

    Article • Small Science, August 2023, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  24. Structural light absorption in elytral micropillars of Euprotaetia inexpectata beetles

    Article • Materials Today Advances, August 2023, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  25. Photonic Amorphous I‐WP‐Like Networks Create Angle‐Independent Colors in Sternotomis virescens Longhorn Beetles

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, May 2023, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  26. Hierarchically Structured Deformation‐Sensing Mechanochromic Pigments

    Article • Advanced Science, March 2023, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  27. Structural color from pigment-loaded nanostructures

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  28. Robust Full‐Spectral Color Tuning of Photonic Colloids

    Article • Small, December 2022, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  29. Bio-inspired materials to control and minimise insect attachment

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, September 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  30. Corrigendum

    Article • New Phytologist, August 2022, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  31. 3D Tomographic Analysis of the Order‐Disorder Interplay in the Pachyrhynchus congestus mirabilis Weevil

    Article • Advanced Science, July 2022, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  32. Pachyrhynchus Weevils Use 3D Photonic Crystals with Varying Degrees of Order to Create Diverse and Brilliant Displays

    Article • Small, April 2022, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  33. Gradients of orientation, composition and hydration of proteins for efficient light collection by the cornea of the horseshoe crab

    Article • February 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Bodo Wilts

  34. Cortex Thickness Is Key for the Colors of Iridescent Starling Feather Barbules With a Single, Organized Melanosome Layer

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, November 2021, Frontiers

    Bodo Wilts

  35. Heterolytic Bond Cleavage in a Scissile Triarylmethane Mechanophore

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  36. Enhancing the Refractive Index of Polymers with a Plant‐Based Pigment

    Article • Small, September 2021, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  37. Light Polarization by Biological Nanocoatings

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, May 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  38. Cyan-Emitting Cu(I) Complexes and Their Luminescent Metallopolymers

    Article • Molecules, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Bodo Wilts

  39. Insect Antiadhesive Surfaces Using Electrosprayed Wrinkled Ethyl Cellulose Particles

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  40. Distributed Bragg reflectors from colloidal trilayer flake solutions

    Article • APL Photonics, February 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  41. Correction to ‘Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies’

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, January 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  42. Hyperbolic Optical Metamaterials from Shear‐Aligned Block Copolymer Cylinder Arrays

    Article • Advanced Photonics Research, November 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  43. Carbon‐Assisted Stable Silver Nanostructures

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, October 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  44. Fruit Coloration: Attractive, Fatty Blue Colours?

    Article • Current Biology, October 2020, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  45. Evolutionary algorithms converge towards evolved biological photonic structures

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  46. Structural Diversity with Varying Disorder Enables the Multicolored Display in the Longhorn Beetle Sulawesiella rafaelae

    Article • iScience, July 2020, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  47. Strong Circular Dichroism in Single Gyroid Optical Metamaterials

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, May 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  48. Soft Photonic Fibers for Colorimetric Solvent Vapor Sensing

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, May 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  49. Complex photonic response reveals three-dimensional self-organization of structural coloured bacterial colonies

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  50. Polymerization‐Induced Wrinkled Surfaces with Controlled Topography as Slippery Surfaces for Colorado Potato Beetles

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, April 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts, VENKATA SURAPANENI

  51. Orientation-Dependent Reflection of Structurally Coloured Butterflies

    Article • Biomimetics, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Ille C Gebeshuber, Bodo Wilts

  52. What's in a band? The function of the color and banding pattern of the Banded Swallowtail

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, January 2020, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  53. Designing refractive index fluids using the Kramers–Kronig relations

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  54. Ultra-dense, curved, grating optics determines peacock spider coloration

    Article • Nanoscale Advances, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  55. Polydopamine Nanoparticle Doped Nanofluid for Solar Thermal Energy Collector Efficiency Increase

    Article • Advanced Sustainable Systems, December 2019, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  56. Determining the complex Jones matrix elements of a chiral 3D optical metamaterial

    Article • APL Photonics, December 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  57. Diffusive structural colour in Hoplia argentea

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  58. Humidity-dependent colour change in the green forester moth, Adscita statices

    Article • Biology Letters, September 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  59. A Dynamic Optical Signal in a Nocturnal Moth

    Article • Current Biology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  60. Measuring the refractive index dispersion of (un)pigmented biological tissues by Jamin-Lebedeff interference microscopy

    Article • AIP Advances, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  61. Pterin-pigmented nanospheres create the colours of the polymorphic damselfly Ischnura elegans

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  62. When Black and White make Green: the Surprising Interplay of Structure and Pigments

    Article • CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry, February 2019, Swiss Chemical Society

    Bodo Wilts

  63. Living light : optics, ecology and design principles of natural photonic structures

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  64. Reflections on iridescent neck and breast feathers of the peacock, Pavo cristatus

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  65. Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  66. Metasurfaces Atop Metamaterials: Surface Morphology Induces Linear Dichroism in Gyroid Optical Metamaterials

    Article • Advanced Materials, November 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  67. Controlling Self-Assembly in Gyroid Terpolymer Films By Solvent Vapor Annealing

    Article • Small, September 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  68. A Literal Elytral Rainbow: Tunable Structural Colors Using Single Diamond Biophotonic Crystals in Pachyrrhynchus congestus Weevils

    Article • Small, August 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  69. Ultrastructure and optics of the prism-like petal epidermal cells of Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)

    Article • New Phytologist, June 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  70. Living Light 2018: Conference Report

    Article • Biomimetics, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Bodo Wilts

  71. It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

    Article • Advanced Materials, March 2018, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  72. Genetic manipulation of structural color in bacterial colonies

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Bodo Wilts

  73. Polymer-Templated LiFePO4/C Nanonetworks as High-Performance Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  74. Magnificent magpie colours by feathers with layers of hollow melanosomes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, December 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  75. Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies combine a restricted set of pigmentary and structural coloration mechanisms

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  76. Spectrally resolved surface plasmon resonance dispersion using half-ball optics

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, November 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  77. Nanodroplet-Containing Polymers for Efficient Low-Power Light Upconversion

    Article • Advanced Materials, September 2017, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  78. Optical Imaging of Large Gyroid Grains in Block Copolymer Templates by Confined Crystallization

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  79. Structural coloured feathers of mallards act by simple multilayer photonics

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  80. Mesoporous Titania Microspheres with Highly Tunable Pores as an Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  81. Evolutionary-Optimized Photonic Network Structure in White Beetle Wing Scales

    Article • Advanced Materials, June 2017, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  82. Circularly polarized reflection from the scarab beetle Chalcothea smaragdina : light scattering by a dual photonic structure

    Article • Interface Focus, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  83. Emergence and function of complex form in self-assembly and biological cells

    Article • Interface Focus, June 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  84. Butterfly gyroid nanostructures as a time-frozen glimpse of intracellular membrane development

    Article • Science Advances, April 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Bodo Wilts

  85. Invited Article: Chiral optics of helicoidal cellulose nanocrystal films

    Article • APL Photonics, April 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Bodo Wilts

  86. Formation of Synthetic Nanopores with Diameters from 20-50 nm by Laser-Assisted Dielectric Breakdown

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2017, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  87. Patterning of perovskite–polymer films by wrinkling instabilities

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Bodo Wilts

  88. Extreme Refractive Index Wing Scale Beads Containing Dense Pterin Pigments Cause the Bright Colors of Pierid Butterflies

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2016, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  89. Structural Color in Marine Algae

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2016, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  90. Gyroid Optical Metamaterials: Calculating the Effective Permittivity of Multidomain Samples

    Article • ACS Photonics, September 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Bodo Wilts

  91. Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke’s birdwing butterflies

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  92. Splendid coloration of the peacock spiderMaratus splendens

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  93. Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Through Nd-Doping of Mesostructured TiO2

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, December 2015, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  94. Spectrally tuned structural and pigmentary coloration of birdwing butterfly wing scales

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  95. Structural colour in Chondrus crispus

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  96. Swelling and Softening of the Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus in Response to pH Shifts

    Article • Biophysical Journal, May 2015, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  97. High refractive index of melanin in shiny occipital feathers of a bird of paradise

    Article • Light Science & Applications, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  98. Optical Properties of Gyroid Structured Materials: From Photonic Crystals to Metamaterials

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, November 2014, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts

  99. Pigmentary and photonic coloration mechanisms reveal taxonomic relationships of the Cattlehearts (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parides)

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts

  100. Gold nanoparticles explore cells: Cellular uptake and their use as intracellular probes

    Article • Methods, July 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  101. The colouration toolkit of the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: thin films, papiliochromes, and melanin

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  102. Iridescent flowers? Contribution of surface structures to optical signaling

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2014, Wiley

    Bodo Wilts, Prof. dr. Theo Elzenga, Bodo Wilts

  103. Coloration principles of nymphaline butterflies - thin films, melanin, ommochromes and wing scale stacking

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 2014, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  104. Sparkling feather reflections of a bird-of-paradise explained by finite-difference time-domain modeling

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Bodo Wilts

  105. Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts

  106. Absence of Circular Polarisation in Reflections of Butterfly Wing Scales with Chiral Gyroid Structure

    Article • Materials Today Proceedings, January 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  107. Natural Helicoidal Structures: Morphology, Self-assembly and Optical Properties

    Article • Materials Today Proceedings, January 2014, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts

  108. The Japanese jewel beetle: a painter's challenge

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, November 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  109. Quantifying the refractive index dispersion of a pigmented biological tissue using Jamin–Lebedeff interference microscopy

    Article • Light Science & Applications, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  110. Spectral tuning of Amazon parrot feather coloration by psittacofulvin pigments and spongy structures

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, September 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  111. Shiny wing scales cause spec(tac)ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  112. Are insect displays tuned to insect vision?

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  113. Shine and Hide: Biological Photonic Crystals on the Wings of Weevils

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Prof Hans De Raedt, Bodo Wilts

  114. Sexual Dichromatism of the Damselfly Calopteryx japonica Caused by a Melanin-Chitin Multilayer in the Male Wing Veins

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Bodo Wilts, Prof Hans De Raedt, Bodo Wilts

  115. Variable multilayer reflection together with long-pass filtering pigment determines the wing coloration of papilionid butterflies of the nireus group

    Article • Optics Express, April 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  116. Brilliant camouflage: photonic crystals in the diamond weevil, Entimus imperialis

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  117. Papiliochrome II pigment reduces the angle dependency of structural wing colouration in nireus group papilionids

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, February 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  118. Glass scales on the wing of the swordtail butterfly Graphium sarpedon act as thin film polarizing reflectors

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  119. Iridescence and spectral filtering of the gyroid-type photonic crystals in Parides sesostris wing scales

    Article • Interface Focus, December 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  120. Hemispherical Brillouin zone imaging of a diamond-type biological photonic crystal

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, December 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  121. Refractive index and dispersion of butterfly chitin and bird keratin measured by polarizing interference microscopy

    Article • Optics Express, November 2011, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  122. Kingfisher feathers - colouration by pigments, spongy nanostructures and thin films

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, November 2011, The Company of Biologists

    Bodo Wilts

  123. Spatial reflection patterns of iridescent wings of male pierid butterflies: curved scales reflect at a wider angle than flat scales

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  124. Spectral reflectance properties of iridescent pierid butterfly wings

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  125. Polarized iridescence of the multilayered elytra of the Japanese jewel beetle, Chrysochroa fulgidissima

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  126. Swelling and Softening of the CCMV Plant Virus Capsid in Response to pH Shifts

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Bodo Wilts, Bodo Wilts

  127. Imaging scatterometry and microspectrophotometry of lycaenid butterfly wing scales with perforated multilayers

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Bodo Wilts