Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0556820

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0556820

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Function and evolution of optical structures in nature. Designing optical structures that simultaneously satisfy multiple and conflicting criteria and satisfy difficult manufacturing constraints is technologically challenging. However, Nature has been doing this for millions of years. This project is a systematic study of optical structures in one of Nature's most diverse range of species: butterflies. The microstructures inside butterfly scales have an amazing diversity of geometries that produce structural colour and are amongst the most complex naturally occurring optical structures produced by a single cell.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 26-02-2005

End Date: 01-12-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $513,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Numerical and Computational Mathematics | Optimisation | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Physical sciences | Mathematical sciences

Other Keywords

Animal Systematics, Taxonomy And Phylogeny | Biological sciences | Mathematical sciences | Numerical and Computational Mathematics | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Optimisation | Physical sciences

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