{"id":219072,"date":"2025-07-30T16:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/programmable-nanospheres-unlock-natures-500-million-year-old-color-secrets"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:06:15","slug":"programmable-nanospheres-unlock-natures-500-million-year-old-color-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/programmable-nanospheres-unlock-natures-500-million-year-old-color-secrets","title":{"rendered":"Programmable nanospheres unlock nature\u2019s 500-million-year-old color secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-nanospheres-unlock-natures-500-million-year-old-color-secrets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Half a billion years ago, nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colors via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Professor Colm Delaney from Trinity\u2019s School of Chemistry and AMBER, the Research Ireland Center for <i>Advanced Materials<\/i> and BioEngineering Research, has developed a pioneering method, inspired by nature, to create and program structural colors using a cutting-edge microfabrication technique.<\/p>\n<p>The work could have major implications for environmental sensing, biomedical diagnostics, and photonic materials. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202504116\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half a billion years ago, nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colors via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science. A team led by Professor Colm Delaney from Trinity\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219072","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}