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

Hydrogel materials have great application value in biomedical engineering. Among them,
photocrosslinked hydrogels have attracted much attention due to their variety and simple …

Bioinspired structural color materials represent a curiosity-led, technology-driven field with
multidisciplinary research studies aiming at mimicking and recapitulating natural coloration …

There is a need to develop versatile sensing motifs that can be used to detect a variety of
chemical targets in resource-limited settings, for example, at the point of care. While …

Optical properties of cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) can be tuned by an
external field, however, it will spontaneously restore to the original state after the field is …

Aptamer-functionalized two-dimensional photonic crystal (2DPC) hydrogels are reported for
the detection of adenosine (AD). As a molecular recognition group, an AD-binding aptamer …

Chemical contaminants in food generally include natural toxins (mycotoxins, animal toxins,
and phytotoxins), pesticides, veterinary drugs, environmental pollutants, heavy metals, and …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs), consisting of highly ordered monodisperse nanoparticles,
have been carried out a great deal of research in recent decades due to the attributes of …

We report a pseudo-paper microfluidic chip based on patterned photonic nitrocellulose. The
photonic nitrocellulose is fabricated using self-assembled monodisperse SiO2 nanoparticles …

Hydrogel colloidal crystal composite materials have a demonstrated value in responsive
photonic crystals (PhCs) via controllable stimuli. Although they have been successfully …