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+-   Lasers used to add color to metal-> on Friday February 01 2008, @10:11AM Maximum Prophet

Submitted by Maximum Prophet on Friday February 01 2008, @10:11AM
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Maximum Prophet writes "An optics professor and his postgrad have developed a way to use ultra short pulses of laser light to etch nano features into the surface of metals so that they can absord or reflect specific wavelengths of light.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/science/31metal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This is very similar to the way that butterflies get the color in their wings."
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