Bioinspired colloidal photonic composites: fabrications and emerging applications

M Li, Q Lyu, B Peng, X Chen, L Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms in nature have evolved unique structural colors and stimuli‐responsive functions
for camouflage, warning, and communication over millions of years, which are essential to …

Block copolymer nanopatterning for nonsemiconductor device applications

GG Yang, HJ Choi, KH Han, JH Kim… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Block copolymer (BCP) nanopatterning has emerged as a versatile nanoscale fabrication
tool for semiconductor devices and other applications, because of its ability to organize well …

Bioinspired Dynamically Switchable PANI/PS‐b‐P2VP Thin Films for Multicolored Electrochromic Displays with Long‐Term Durability

D Zhang, J Wang, Z Tong, H Ji… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochromism has attracted wide attention as futuristic adaptive camouflage technologies
due to its reversible and sustainable optical modulation with low energy consumption …

Phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers: Progress and opportunities

J Xie, AC Shi - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
The phase behavior of binary blends of diblock copolymers has been examined extensively
in the past decades. Experimental and theoretical studies have demonstrated that mixing …

Multicolor Photonic Pigments for Rotation‐Asymmetric Mechanochromic Devices

Z Li, X Wang, L Han, C Zhu, H Xin, Y Yin - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic crystals are extensively explored to replace inorganic pigments and organic dyes
as coloring elements in printing, painting, sensing, and anti‐counterfeiting due to their …

Multifunctional photonic Janus particles

Q He, H Vijayamohanan, J Li… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photonic Janus particles with a sphere fused to a cone are created from the phase
separation of dendronized brush block copolymers (den-BBCP) and poly (4-vinylpyridine)-r …

Block copolymer directed metamaterials and metasurfaces for novel optical devices

A Alvarez‐Fernandez, C Cummins… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Optical metamaterials are artificially engineered architectures that exhibit desired optical
properties not found in nature. Bespoke design requires the ability to define shape, size …

Poly (vinylpyridine)-containing block copolymers for smart, multicompartment particles

D Lee, J Kim, KH Ku, S Li, JJ Shin, BJ Kim - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multicompartment particles generated by the self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs)
have received considerable attention due to their unique morphologies and functionalities. A …

Programmable coloration and patterning on reconfigurable chiral photonic paper

S Cui, L Qin, X Liu, Y Yu - Advanced Optical Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Responsive photonic crystals are widely employed to construct rewritable paper, where
patterns are written and erased repeatedly via color switching. The working principle mainly …

Confined self-assembly of block copolymers within emulsion droplets: a perspective

M Peng, D Hu, X Chang, Y Zhu - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
When the self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) occurs within organic emulsion
droplets in the aqueous phase, the strong structural frustration of BCP chains causes the …