Polymer-based responsive structural color materials

H Wang, H Zhang, Z Chen, Y Zhao, Z Gu… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer-based responsive structural color materials are polymers with ordered
microstructures that can change colors. They offer unique advantages and present a novel …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial structural colors and applications

Z Xuan, J Li, Q Liu, F Yi, S Wang, W Lu - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Structural colors are colors generated by the interaction between incident light and
nanostructures. Structural colors have been studied for decades due to their promising …

Thermo‐and mechanochromic camouflage and self‐healing in biomimetic soft actuators based on liquid crystal elastomers

Z Liu, HK Bisoyi, Y Huang, M Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, many mysterious creatures capable of deformation camouflage, color camouflage,
and self‐healing have inspired scientists to develop various biomimetic soft robots …

Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous resin refilling and hydrogen bond synergistically assisted 3D structural color printing

Y Zhang, L Zhang, C Zhang, J Wang, J Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract 3D photonic crystals (PCs) have attracted extensive attention due to their unique
optical properties. However, fabricating 3D PCs structure by 3D printing colloidal particles is …

Direct writing of customized structural-color graphics with colloidal photonic inks

JB Kim, C Chae, SH Han, SY Lee, SH Kim - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Colloidal crystals and glasses have been designed to develop structural colors that are
tunable, iridescent, nonfading, and nontoxic. However, the low printability and poor printing …

Plasmonic colour generation

A Kristensen, JKW Yang, SI Bozhevolnyi… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Plasmonic colours are structural colours that emerge from resonant interactions between
light and metallic nanostructures. The engineering of plasmonic colours is a promising …

[HTML][HTML] Structural multi-colour invisible inks with submicron 4D printing of shape memory polymers

W Zhang, H Wang, H Wang, JYE Chan, H Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Four-dimensional (4D) printing of shape memory polymer (SMP) imparts time
responsive properties to 3D structures. Here, we explore 4D printing of a SMP in the …

Photonic-structure colored radiative coolers for daytime subambient cooling

S Yu, Q Zhang, Y Wang, Y Lv, R Ma - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Daytime subambient radiative cooling provides a powerful strategy for realizing sustainable
thermal management without any external energy consumption. However, in practical …

Gradient metasurfaces: a review of fundamentals and applications

F Ding, A Pors, SI Bozhevolnyi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the wake of intense research on metamaterials the two-dimensional analogue, known as
metasurfaces, has attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years due to the …