From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances in self-assembly and their emerging applications

Z Cai, Z Li, S Ravaine, M He, Y Song, Y Yin… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Recent advances in photonic crystal-based sensors

T Li, G Liu, H Kong, G Yang, G Wei, X Zhou - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Photonic crystal (PC) is an emerging optical microstructure material with adjustable
dielectric constant, which can vary with its space periodically. It has exhibited excellent …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Patterned colloidal photonic crystals

J Hou, M Li, Y Song - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) have been well developed because they are easy to
prepare, cost‐effective, and versatile with regards to modification and functionalization …

Plasmonic alloys reveal a distinct metabolic phenotype of early gastric cancer

H Su, X Li, L Huang, J Cao, M Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gastric cancer (GC) is a multifactorial process, accompanied by alterations in metabolic
pathways. Non‐invasive metabolic profiling facilitates GC diagnosis at early stage leading to …

Bottom-up assembled photonic crystals for structure-enabled label-free sensing

J Wang, PWH Pinkse, LI Segerink, JCT Eijkel - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photonic crystals (PhCs) display photonic stop bands (PSBs) and at the edges of these
PSBs transport light with reduced velocity, enabling the PhCs to confine and manipulate …

Responsive photonic crystals

J Ge, Y Yin - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This Review summarizes recent developments in the field of responsive photonic crystal
structures, including principles for design and fabrication and many strategies for …

Spherical colloidal photonic crystals

Y Zhao, L Shang, Y Cheng, Z Gu - Accounts of chemical research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Colloidal photonic crystals (PhCs), periodically arranged monodisperse
nanoparticles, have emerged as one of the most promising materials for light manipulation …

Microdroplets in microfluidics: an evolving platform for discoveries in chemistry and biology

AB Theberge, F Courtois, Y Schaerli… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Microdroplets in microfluidics offer a great number of opportunities in chemical and
biological research. They provide a compartment in which species or reactions can be …