Butterflies Regulate Wing Temperatures Using Radiative Cooling

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fth3h.6
• Publication Date: 2017-05-08T16:11:28Z
• Authors: Cheng-Chia Tsai; Nan Shi; Julianne Pelaez; Naomi Pierce; Nanfang Yu
• Keywords: Radiative Cooling

We discovered that the spatial distribution of coloration and emissivity butterfly wings help regulate wing temperatures, variation thermal is mainly controlled by nano-structures scales.