{"id":186301,"date":"2024-03-29T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-common-backyard-insect-is-helping-scientists-develop-invisibility-devices"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T17:24:25","slug":"this-common-backyard-insect-is-helping-scientists-develop-invisibility-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-common-backyard-insect-is-helping-scientists-develop-invisibility-devices","title":{"rendered":"This Common Backyard Insect Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-common-backyard-insect-is-helping-scientists-develop-invisibility-devices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/penn-state-university\/\">Penn State<\/a> researchers. In a first, the team precisely replicated the complex geometry of these particles, called brochosomes, and elucidated a better understanding of how they absorb both visible and ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n<p>This could allow the development of bioinspired optical materials with possible applications ranging from invisible cloaking devices to coatings to more efficiently harvest solar energy, said Tak-Sing Wong, professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering. Wong led the study, which was published today (March 18) in the <em><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/em> of the United States of America (<em>PNAS<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation technology, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. In a first, the team precisely replicated the complex geometry of these particles, called brochosomes, and elucidated a better understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}