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Roy Sambles is professor of experimental physics at Exeter University.

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Flights of fancy: Why do some wings shine?BBC

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01 August 2006

Professor Roy Sambles, an optical physicist, describes research into the proteins that create a metallic appearance on the wings of moths and butterflies  Read more : Flights of fancy: Why do some wings shine?

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Roy Sambles is professor of experimental physics at Exeter University. As head of the Thin Film Photonics Group his research covers optics of thin layered systems, liquid crystal optics, grating optics, surface plasmons, molecular rectification, butterfly wings, photonic surfaces and microwave structures. He is a Chartered Physicist and fellow of the Institute of Physics, and has refereed more than 340 research papers. In 1998, he was awarded the Gray medal for his work on the optics of liquid crystals.

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