"Exploring Structures - Butterfly" is a hands-on activity in which visitors investigate how some butterfly wings get their color. They learn that some wings get their color from the nanoscale structures on the wings instead of pigments.
- The way a material behaves on the macroscale is affected by its properties on the nanoscale.
- Some nanotechnologies are inspired by nature.
- Nanometer-sized things are very small, and often behave differently than larger things do.
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