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 …

Multivariable sensors for ubiquitous monitoring of gases in the era of internet of things and industrial internet

RA Potyrailo - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Modern gas monitoring scenarios for medical diagnostics, environmental surveillance,
industrial safety, and other applications demand new sensing capabilities. This Review …

Light to shape the future: from photolithography to 4D printing

J del Barrio… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last few decades, the demand of polymeric structures with well‐defined features of
different size, dimension, and functionality has increased from various application areas …

Recent advances in the biomimicry of structural colours

AG Dumanli, T Savin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature has mastered the construction of nanostructures with well-defined macroscopic
effects and purposes. Structural colouration is a visible consequence of the particular …

Bio-inspired structural colors and their applications

F Chen, Y Huang, R Li, S Zhang, B Wang… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Structural colors, generated by the interaction of interference, diffraction, and scattering
between incident light and periodic nanostructured surfaces with features of the same scale …

Toward high value sensing: monolayer-protected metal nanoparticles in multivariable gas and vapor sensors

RA Potyrailo - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
For detection of gases and vapors in complex backgrounds,“classic” analytical instruments
are an unavoidable alternative to existing sensors. Recently a new generation of sensors …

Butterfly inspired functional materials

Z Chen, Z Zhang, Y Wang, D Xu, Y Zhao - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
As one of the most complex structures in nature, butterflies have attracted wide interest over
the past few decades. Inspired by these delicate structures and the marvelous derived …

Nature-inspired anti-fouling strategies for combating marine biofouling

A Ali, ET Kang, L Xu - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine biofouling is a major international challenge, which causes significant problems for
global ecologies and economies. It manifests as the extensive and costly colonization of …

Scalable inkjet-based structural color printing by molding transparent gratings on multilayer nanostructured surfaces

H Jiang, B Kaminska - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
To enable customized manufacturing of structural colors for commercial applications, up-
scalable, low-cost, rapid, and versatile printing techniques are highly demanded. In this …

High numerical aperture hexagonal stacked ring-based bidirectional flexible polymer microlens array

R Ahmed, AK Yetisen, H Butt - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Flexible imprinted photonic nanostructures that are able to diffract/focus narrow-band light
have potential applications in optical lenses, filters, tunable lasers, displays, and biosensing …