Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Beyond traditional needs of biosensors such as high sensitivity and selectivity for analyte
detection, newly emerging requirements including a real-time detection ability and in-field …

Owing to their excellent multiplexing ability, high sensitivity, and large dynamic range,
immunoassays using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as the readout signal …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) have been well developed because they are easy to
prepare, cost‐effective, and versatile with regards to modification and functionalization …

The early detection of cancer can significantly reduce cancer mortality and saves lives. Thus,
a great deal of effort has been devoted to the exploration of new technologies to detect early …

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cancer cells that circulate in the blood stream after being
naturally shed from original or metastatic tumors, and can lead to a new fatal metastasis …

Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with
multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration …

Biological photonic crystal (PC) patterns provide unique functionalities for the survival of
creatures, such as the static identified patterns of butterfly wings, the mating function of the …

Photonic crystals (PhCs) display photonic stop bands (PSBs) and at the edges of these
PSBs transport light with reduced velocity, enabling the PhCs to confine and manipulate …