Structural colors widespread in nature have been theoretically in‐depth studied and
manufactured through the artificial approaches such as self‐assembly and nanolithography …

Natural structural color materials, especially those that can undergo reversible changes, are
attracting increasing interest in a wide variety of research fields. Inspired by the natural …

Structurally coloured materials that change their colour in response to mechanical stimuli
are uniquely suited for optical sensing and visual communication,,–. The main barrier to their …

Chameleons use a non-close-packed array of guanine nanocrystals in iridophores to
develop and tune skin colors in the full visible range. Inspired by the biological process …

The engineering of optical and acoustic material functionalities via construction of ordered
local and global architectures on various length scales commensurate with and well below …

A scalable protocol for design and subsequent 3D‐printing of polymeric core‐shell‐particles
is reported. The particle synthesis by emulsion polymerization in starved‐feed mode is used …

Mechanochromic effects in structurally colored materials are the result of deformation‐
induced changes to their ordered nanostructures. Polymeric materials which respond in this …

Organisms have evolved passively in nature with well-defined macroscopic effects and
corresponding nanostructures under the microscope. Stunning structural colors are the …

A new family of mechanochromic photonic‐crystal fibers exhibits tunable structural colors
under stretching. This novel mechanochromic fiber is prepared by depositing polymer …

Because structural color is fadeless and dye-free, structurally colored materials have
attracted great attention in a wide variety of research fields. In this work, we report the use of …