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

Additive manufacturing, also called 3D printing, is a rapidly evolving technique that allows
for the fabrication of functional materials with complex architectures, controlled …

Nanoparticles are generally defined as any particulate material for which at least one
dimension lies in the range of 1− 100 nm. 1− 3 They can exist in various shapes, such as …

This Review covers photonic crystals (PhCs) and their use for sensing mainly chemical and
biochemical parameters, with a particular focus on the materials applied. Specific sections …

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 …

Metal−Organic Frameworks as Sensors: A ZIF-8 Based Fabry−Pérot Device as a Selective
Sensor for Chemical Vapors and Gases | Journal of the American Chemical Society ACS ACS …

The ability to pattern materials in three dimensions is critical for several technological
applications, including composites, microfluidics, photonics, and tissue engineering. Direct …

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are present in the mixture of gases found in the exhaled
human breath. Since their occurrence in the breath may indicate the presence of a disease …

Since its first demonstration as a promising material for molecular detection two decades
ago, porous silicon (PSi) has become a commercially viable optical biosensor platform …

An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …