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

Photonic actuators, serving as an emerging kind of intelligent stimuli‐responsive material,
can exhibit the abilities to change their structural colors/fluorescence and shapes under …

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 …

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development in the field of structural coloration, colors
generated from the interaction of nanostructures with light. Compared to conventional color …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) have been extensively investigated since they can be
prepared in an efficient and low-cost way. Different from the conventional PCs with highly …

Artificial construction of amorphous photonic structures (APSs) is an important approach for
obtaining noniridescent structural colors and shows a great potential for practical …

Photonic crystals (PCs) have been widely applied in the anticounterfeiting field according to
their easily tunable and angle-dependent structural colors. However, most studies are now …

Photonic elastomers (PEs) that can tune their colors through adjusting the lattice spacing of
incorporated colloidal particles during mechanical deformation have shown great promise in …

The development of programmable structural color hydrogels that can adapt to the variation
of surrounding environments is of paramount importance for many important applications …