This work was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (417) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Japanese Government. Z.-Z.G. also thanks the Research Foundation (60228002) of the National Nature Science Foundation of China.
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Structural Color and the Lotus Effect†
Article first published online: 21 FEB 2003
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200390235
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Gu, Z.-Z., Uetsuka, H., Takahashi, K., Nakajima, R., Onishi, H., Fujishima, A. and Sato, O. (2003), Structural Color and the Lotus Effect. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42: 894–897. doi: 10.1002/anie.200390235
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