InhaltsangabeIridescence.- Why Colors.- Lepidoptera Description and Scales of Observation.- Coleoptera Description and Observation Scales.- Changing Colors: Structures or Pigments?.- Physical Colors, Chemical Colors Basics of Solid State Optics.- 1-Dimensional Structures: Interferences.- 2-Dimensional Structures: Interferences and Diffraction.- 3-Dimensional Structures: Crystalline Diffraction.- Amorphous Structures: Scattering.- Pigments and Pigmentary Colors.- Thermoregulation and Spectral Selectivity.- Vision and Colorimetry.

Serge Berthier teaches physics at the Denis Diderot-Paris 7 University and researches biologic structures, colors and biomimetism at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris ( Pierre and Marie Curie-Paris 6 University and CNRS). He teaches solid state optics in the post-graduate degree "Optics and material" and the post-graduate research degree "Optics and Photonic" for the Denis Diderot University. He also teaches electromagnetism and laser physics to undergraduates at the Paris-Jussieu Institut of Technology.

Preface.- 1 Iridescence.- 2 Why Colors?- 3 The Lepidoptera.- 4 The Coleoptera.- 5 Physical and Chemical Colors: Solid-State Optics.- 6 Structures at 1-Dimension: Interferences.- 7 Structures at 2-Dimensions: Interferences and Diffraction.- 8 Structures at 3-Dimensions: Crystalline Diffraction.- 9 Amorphous Structures: Diffusion.- 10 Pigments and Pigment Colors.- 11 Thermoregulation and Spectral Selectivity.- 12 Vision and Colorimetry.- 13 Conclusion References Index.