This is the supplimentary data for the publication: "Biomimetic Cooling: Functionalizing Biodegradable Chitosan Films with Saharan Silver Ant Microstructures" in Biomimetics

Contents of the folders:

confocal

Measurements done with the Nanofocus usurf explorer of: Silver Ants, shrimp shells (pre and post climate chamber exposure), PVS stamp and chitsoan films

FTIR

averaged data (exported from LabCognition panorama 4.0 to excel) of FTIR measurments (Bruker Lumos) of structured and unstructured chitosan films. Python scripts for generating reflectance diagrams.  Reflectance diagrams.

optical

image of chitosan film with CD structure taken with a digital camera (Canon EOS R10). Two Silver Ant Speciman under an optical microscope.

SEM

SEM Findings include serveral micrographs of shrimp shells as well as micrographs of an investigated Silver Ant gaster. Instrument used: ThermoFisher Scios II

miscellaneous

Graphs and illustrations used in the article

Technical Details

The uploaded data uses common file formats (pdf, xlsx, PNG & JPG) which should require no special software to read.

The python files are functional with the following package versions: 

Python 3.12

• matplotlib 3.9.2

• numpy 2.1.0

• pandas 2.2.2

• openpyxl 3.1.5

License

The CC-BY license applies to all the data. All distributed code is under the MIT license.