How can a butterfly help us understand RFID technology?  Help create anti-counterfitting measures?  What can we learn?  Apparently, we can learn a lot from butterfly wings.  In the article Butterfly reasearch to improve RFID technology, the butterly wing has many secrets.

To get a close look at a butterfly wings, the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK), a NSF Center, an animation that has pictures of extreme close up of butterfly wings and why they are fascinating to researchers.  You can also find more nano material at their Nano4me.org website.

Mark Viquesney