The secret of dazzling shrimps

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On Your Wavelength

Ankita Anirban and Cristiano Matricardi

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9 months ago

A podcast on physics and publishing, brought to you by editors from the Nature portfolio. We go behind the scenes and talk to the authors and editors of the most interesting physics papers published in the Nature journals.

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The secret of dazzling shrimps

On Your Wavelength

33 minutes 26 seconds

2 years ago

The secret of dazzling shrimps

This month, we're looking into the impressive white colour of the Pacific Cleaner shrimp. A recent study in Nature Photonics reveals how birefringence enables the the shrimp to overcome optical crowding. Tune in to find out more...

Featuring Benjamin Palmer and Tali Lemcof (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) and Giampaolo Pitruzzello (Nature Photonics).

Hosted by Ankita Anirban (Nature Reviews Physics) and Cristiano Matricardi (Nature communications)

Ref: Lemcoff, T., Alus, L., Haataja, J.S. et al. Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres. Nat. Photon. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01182-4

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