Bioinspired photonic pigments from colloidal self‐assembly

ESA Goerlitzer, RN Klupp Taylor… - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The natural world is a colorful environment. Stunning displays of coloration have evolved
throughout nature to optimize camouflage, warning, and communication. The resulting …

Mechanochromism of structural‐colored materials

G Chen, W Hong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Structural colors widespread in nature have been theoretically in‐depth studied and
manufactured through the artificial approaches such as self‐assembly and nanolithography …

State‐of‐the‐art advances, development, and challenges of metal oxide semiconductor nanomaterials for photothermal solar steam generation

KW Tan, CM Yap, Z Zheng, CY Haw… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar steam generation has drawn high levels of attention from the research community in
recent years due to its wide application and abundantly available energy source—sunlight …

Schrödinger's red pixel by quasi-bound-states-in-the-continuum

Z Dong, L **, SD Rezaei, H Wang, Y Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
While structural colors are ubiquitous in nature, saturated reds are mysteriously absent. This
long-standing problem of achieving Schrödinger's red demands sharp transitions from …

Light in correlated disordered media

K Vynck, R Pierrat, R Carminati, LS Froufe-Pérez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

Biological material interfaces as inspiration for mechanical and optical material designs

J Ren, Y Wang, Y Yao, Y Wang, X Fei, P Qi… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The extraordinary properties of biological materials often result from their sophisticated
hierarchical structures. Through multilevel and cross-scale structural designs, biological …

[PDF][PDF] Using cuttlefish ink as an additive to produce non‐iridescent structural colors of high color visibility

Y Zhang, B Dong, A Chen, X Liu, L Shi… - Advanced …, 2015 - physics.fudan.edu.cn
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201501936 interactions among spheres have been proposed. For dried
colloidal APSs, self-assembling two different-sized spheres was proposed.[22, 38] In the …

Production of colored pigments with amorphous arrays of black and white colloidal particles

Y Takeoka, S Yoshioka, A Takano, S Arai… - Angewandte …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There are many technical and industrial applications for colored pigments with nonfading
properties. The development of a low-cost, high-volume production method for nonfading …

Self-assembled colloidal structures for photonics

SH Kim, SY Lee, SM Yang, GR Yi - NPG Asia Materials, 2011 - nature.com
Colloidal self-assembly has been investigated as a promising and practical approach for the
fabrication of photonic nanostructures, including colloidal crystals, composite and inverse …

Additive mixing and conformal coating of noniridescent structural colors with robust mechanical properties fabricated by atomization deposition

Q Li, Y Zhang, L Shi, H Qiu, S Zhang, N Qi, J Hu… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Artificial structural colors based on short-range-ordered amorphous photonic structures
(APSs) have attracted great scientific and industrial interest in recent years. However, the …