Polymer-based responsive structural color materials are polymers with ordered
microstructures that can change colors. They offer unique advantages and present a novel …

Photonic crystal (PC) is an emerging optical microstructure material with adjustable
dielectric constant, which can vary with its space periodically. It has exhibited excellent …

This Review covers photonic crystals (PhCs) and their use for sensing mainly chemical and
biochemical parameters, with a particular focus on the materials applied. Specific sections …

Responsive optical nanomaterials that can sense and translate various external stimuli into
optical signals, in the forms of observable changes in appearance and variations in spectral …

This Review summarizes recent developments in the field of responsive photonic crystal
structures, including principles for design and fabrication and many strategies for …

Colloidal particles may be considered as building blocks for materials, just like atoms are the
bricks of molecules, macromolecules, and crystals. Periodic arrays of colloids (colloidal …

Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

Colloidal photonic crystals and materials derived from colloidal crystals can exhibit distinct
structural colors that result from incomplete photonic band gaps. Through rational materials …

Photonics, the technology of photons (as electronics is the technology of electrons),
promises to be the new century's driving force in the advancement of, mainly but not only …

An electrically tunable negative permeability metamaterial consisting of a periodic array of
split ring resonators infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals is demonstrated. It shows that the …